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Now, some such ready plea as this will be submitted to you: “Why did
not So-and-so, who suffered this or that at my hands, try to obtain redress from
me? Or why did not So-and-so?”—naming perhaps another of his
victims. But I expect you all know the stock excuses for shirking the duty of
self-defence—want of leisure, a distaste for affairs, inability to
speak, lack of means, and a thousand such reasons.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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