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I certainly cannot figure it out unless you mean to demonstrate this
fact officially—that blackguardism, shamelessness and deliberate villainy are
strong in the State and enjoy a better prospect of coming off safely, and that, if such
men happen to get into a tight place, a way out is discovered, but to elect to live in
honesty of principle, sobriety of life and devotion to the people will be hazardous and,
if some false step is made, the consequences will be inescapable.
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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