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Will you claim pity for your children and yourself
or a kindly interest in your fortunes from these men whom you have already
insulted publicly? Are you alone of living men privileged to be in your daily
life so notoriously possessed of the demon of arrogance that even those who have
no dealings with you are exasperated by your assurance, your tones and gestures,
your parasites, your wealth and your insolence; and then, the instant you are
put on your trial are you to be pitied?
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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