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For the wrongdoing and
insolence of these men nobody is more to blame than yourselves; for you inquire
what the character of every man is from the speakers who you know are doing what
they do for pay; you do not investigate for yourselves. Yet is it not absurd for
you to consider these orators themselves the basest of your citizens, but to
regard those whom they praise as worthy men?
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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