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is outrageous, then, O Earth and the gods, and worse than outrageous, that he
should suffer those who made him a Greek instead of a barbarian and a man of
note instead of a slave, and who brought him to such great prosperity, to live
in dire want while he has means and is rich, and that he should have come to
such a pitch of shamelessness that he cannot bring himself to share with us the
good fortune which we shared with him.
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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