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The second is this: on public questions
my estimates and decisions are disinterested, and no one can show that my policy
and my speeches have been in any way bound up with my private gain. Hence I
always see accurately the advantageous course as suggested by actual
circumstances. But the instant you throw money into one scale, its weight bears
down the judgement with it; and for him that has once done this, accurate and
sound calculation becomes utterly impossible.
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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