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For my own part, I
have never yet chosen to court your favor by saying anything that I was not
quite convinced would be to your advantage; and today, keeping nothing back, I
have given free utterance to my plain sentiments. Yet, certain as I am that it
is to your interest to receive the best advice, I could have wished that I were
equally certain that to offer such advice is also to the interest of the
speaker; for then I should have felt much happier. But, as it is, in the
uncertainty of what the result of my proposal may be for myself, yet in the
conviction that it will be to your interest to adopt it, I have ventured to
address you. Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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