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Just
consider. There are something like twenty thousand citizens in all. Every single
one of them frequents the market-place on some business （you may be
sure）, either public or private. Not so the defendant. He cannot point
to any decent or honorable business in which he has spent his life; he does not
use his talents in the service of the State; he is not engaged in a profession
or in agriculture or in any other business; he takes no part in any charitable
or social organization:
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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