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After getting yourself enrolled on the
register of your parish—no one knows how you managed it; but let that
pass—anyhow, when you were enrolled, you promptly chose a most
gentlemanly occupation, that of clerk and errand-boy to minor officials. After
committing all the offences with which you now reproach other people, you were
relieved of that employment; and I must say that your subsequent conduct did no
discredit to your earlier career.
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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