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To dedicate those
buildings they did not tithe themselves, nor fulfil the imprecations of their
enemies by doubling the income-tax, nor was their policy ever guided by such
advisers as you. No; they conquered their enemies, they fulfilled the prayers of
every sound-hearted man by establishing concord throughout the city; and so they
have bequeathed to us their imperishable glory, and excluded from the
market-place men whose habits of life were what yours have always been.
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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