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But
today, men of Athens, while our
public works are confined to the provision of roads and fountains, whitewash and
balderdash （and I blame, not those who introduced these
improvements—far from it!—but you, if you imagine that these
are all that is required of you）, private individuals, who control any
of the State-funds, have some of them reared private houses, not merely finer
than the majority, but more stately than our public edifices, and others have
purchased and cultivated estates more vast than they ever dreamed of before.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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