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What need to do
this, when you can keep your lips undefiled, and can all of you pray for every
blessing upon all, both on yourselves and on all other citizens and, I may add,
on all aliens and women and children? For the evil influence of the defendant
has.extended, yes, extended to all classes, and all alike are anxious to be rid
of his wickedness and to see that he has paid the penalty.
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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