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For in other
matters when calamity comes on one, then damage is sustained; but in the case of revenues, not
only the arrival of evil, but the bare dread of it, brings disaster. For when the troops of
the enemy are not far off, even though no actual irruption takes place, still the flocks are
abandoned, agriculture is relinquished, the sailing of merchants is at an end. And
accordingly, neither from harbour dues, nor from tenths, nor from the tax on pasture lands,
can any revenue be maintained. And therefore it often happens that the produce of an entire
year is lost by one rumour of danger, and by one alarm of war.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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