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But come, sir, without any of these things a man may
show patriotism and zeal. Where? When? Why, you incorrigible knave, even at the
time when every man who ever spoke from the tribune gave freely to the national
defence, when at last even Aristonicus gave the money he had collected to redeem
his citizenship, you never came forward and put your name down for a farthing.
And yet you were certainly not without means, for you had inherited more than
five talents from the estate of your father-in-law Philo, and you had a present
of two talents, subscribed by the chairmen of the Navy Boards, as a reward for
spoiling the Navy Reform Bill.
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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