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I will now
tell you, without any hesitation, something that, in my opinion, deserves your
sternest indignation. Men of Athens,
while he is doing all this for money, while he has, to tell the truth,
deliberately adopted the profession of paid agent, he does not spend his
earnings on purposes that might claim the indulgence of anyone who heard of
them. What purposes do I mean? Well, gentlemen of the jury, the defendant's
father is in debt to the Treasury. I do not mention that by way of reproach, but
because I cannot help it. And this dutiful son allows him to remain in debt!
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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