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“Then do you suppose it possible to know popular government without knowing the people?”“Indeed I don't.”“And do you know, then, what the people consists of?”“I think so.”“Of what do you suppose it to consist?”“The poorer classes, I presume.”“You know the poor, then?”“Of course I do.”“And you know the rich too?”“Yes, just as well as the poor.”“What kind of men do you call poor and rich respectively?”“The poor, I imagine, are those who have not enough to pay for what they want; the rich those who have more than enough.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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