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For our present difficulties
require goodwill and humanity far more than dissension and malice, an excess of which
certain persons turn to their advantage, pursuing their business1 to your
detriment with the expectation of returns, of which I pray that their calculations may
cheat them. If any one of you ridicules these warnings he must be filled with a profound
simplicity. For if, observing that things have happened which no one could have expected,
he imagines things could not happen now which have happened already before now, when the
people were set at variance with those who spoke in their behalf by men suborned for the
purpose, has he not taken leave of his senses?
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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