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Apart from that,
it seems to me that such arguments offer you a choice, whether you think you
ought to hear excuses and pleas from men who have done you harm, or whether you
ought to have some ships. For if you accept the defendant's plea, it will be
clear to every future Council that their business is to find you plausible
excuses, not to build you ships, with the result that your money will be spent,
but there will be no ships for you.
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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