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Unless you will listen, it is, of
course, absolutely impossible to learn anything,1 any more than if
you keep quiet when no one is speaking. But if you do listen it is impossible to miss one
or the other of two benefits for either, being all persuaded and of the same mind, you
will be more unanimous in your decision—and nothing better than this could
happen for the present emergency—or else, if the speaker be unable to make his
point, you will have more confidence in the decisions already reached.
1 This commonplace appears also in Dem. Ex. 3, Dem. Ex. 4 and Dem. Ex. 5.
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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