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All these things should be in
your minds, and you should show some consideration for us, knowing that, if I
recover my property through your aid, I shall naturally be ready to undertake
public services, being grateful to you for rightfully restoring to me my estate;
while this fellow, if you make him master of my goods, will do nothing of the
kind. Do not imagine that he will be ready to undertake public services for you
on behalf of property which he denies having received. Nay; he will conceal it
rather, that it may appear that he was justly acquitted.
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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