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Virtue! you runagate; what have you or your family to do with virtue? How do
you distinguish between good and evil report? Where and how did you qualify as a
moralist? Where did you get your right to talk about education? No really
educated man would use such language about himself, but would rather blush to
hear it from others; but people like you, who make stupid pretensions to the
culture of which they are utterly destitute, succeed in disgusting everybody
whenever they open their lips, but never in making the impression they desire.
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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