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and my father lived on more than fifteen years longer, and their father as
many. In all these years no one ever came to object or make complaint
（and yet of course it often rained then, just as it does now）;
no one made any opposition at the start, as he would have done, if my father by
walling in his land had caused injury to anyone; nor did anyone forbid him, or
protest against his action.
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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