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So admirable is
your choice of sport and so approved among all men. Believing also, as you do,
that it is futile to desire the things most worth while, or yet to be physically
endowed for all sorts of feats, unless the soul has been prepared for an
ambitious career, at the very outset you exhibited diligence in the training
grounds, nor in the real tests were you disappointing, but you gave
extraordinary proof of the distinction of your natural gifts and particularly of
the courage of your soul in the games.
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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