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And you would be thought to be making a mistake, not
only if you should do this, but also if you should fail to punish those who do
things of this sort, when you have them in your power. For the time to feel
indignation is not when you have suffered some of your possessions to be lost,
but while they are safe, but you see those placed in charge of them failing
through a shameful love of gain to make adequate provision for their safety. Let
no one of you condemn my speech because he regards it as bitter; condemn rather
those who have committed the crime; for it is because of them that my speech is
such as it is.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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