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but
we idly watch the growing power of this man, each bent （or so it seems
to me） on profiting by the interval afforded by another's ruin, taking
not a thought, making not an effort for the salvation of Greece. For that Philip, like the recurrence
or attack of a fever or some other disease, is threatening even those who think
themselves out of reach, of that not one of you is ignorant.
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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