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I, at any rate,—so help me
Heaven—after it occurred to me to reflect upon our present problems, began to
hit upon themes, and no end of them, to which you would have listened not without
pleasure. For instance, on the theme “You are the most just of the
Greeks,” I observed and now observe many changes to ring, and again,
“You are born of the noblest ancestors,” and many such topics.1 Yet these themes,
though affording pleasure so long as they are being aired, after that vanish away;
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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