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But of
what use to them is that? While the vessel is safe, whether it be a large or a
small one, then is the time for sailor and helmsman arid everyone in his turn to
show his zeal and to take care that it is not capsized by anyone's malice or
inadvertence; but when the sea has overwhelmed it, zeal is useless.
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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