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It
would be indeed a great method that you have devised, or, rather, a great trick,
if you could in so short a time make yourself the object of two contradictory
sentiments, rousing resentment by your way of life and compassion by your
mummeries. You have no conceivable claim to compassion; no, not for an instant.
On the contrary, hatred, resentment and wrath—those are what your
conduct calls for. But let me come back to my point, that he intends to arraign
the people and the Assembly.
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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