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It is fitting
therefore, men of Athens, that you should wax indignant also against Phormio,
for bringing this man forward as a witness, when you see the shamelessness of
his character and his ingratitude. For I fancy you all know that if, when the
fellow was for sale, a cook or an artisan in any other trade had bought him, he
would have learned the trade of his master and been far removed from the
prosperity which now is his.
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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