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but if it is
something untoward, something that no one else would wish to hear, he is the
first to jump up at once and harangue the people, making the utmost of his
opportunity and enjoying the silence by which you show your distress at what has
happened. “Why, that is the sort of men you Athenians are. You do not
serve abroad; you see no need to pay your property-tax. And then do you wonder
that your affairs go wrong? Do you think I am going to pay my property-tax and
you spend the money? Do you think I am going to fit out war-galleys and you
decline to embark in them?”
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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