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Consequently I have felt all
the more a moved to write this essay, feeling sure I should not fail to secure
two most honorable rewards.1 For when I have described the good qualities you
possess, I hope that at one and the same time I shall prove you to be worthy of
admiration and myself not senseless if I love you, being what you are; and
secondly, in tendering the advice that is most urgently needed I believe I shall
present proof of my own goodwill and furnish a basis for our mutual friendship.
1 The use of the dual savors of poetry.
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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