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Further, even if this
difficulty were not likely to arise, I cannot think that it is well to bring the
State into this dilemma, that it must either put all citizens on an equality
with its greatest benefactors, or to avoid this must treat some with
ingratitude. Now as for great benefactions, it is not well that you should have
many opportunities of receiving them, nor is it perhaps easy for an individual
to confer them;
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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