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Nor can you plead that you took
compassion on ill-used men, and therefore resolved to help them. That long after
date they should restore money belonging to the citizens, reluctantly,
unwillingly, and after conviction in three courts of justice,—you
certainly never thought that ill-usage. That means ill-conduct, and should
rather provoke our indignation than incline us to pity. Nor do you take pity on
them because a humane and considerate disposition is a peculiar trait of your
character.
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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