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If he succeeds, he will be honored, and
so far will gain an advantage over ordinary people; but if he fails, shall he
put forward excuses and apologies? That would be unfair. For it would be very
poor consolation indeed to our ruined allies, or to their wives and children and
the rest, to be told that their sufferings were due to stupidity on my part, not
to say on his.
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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