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In my
boyhood, Aeschines, I had the advantage of attending respectable schools: and my
means were sufficient for one who was not to be driven by poverty into
disreputable occupations. When I had come of age, my circumstances were in
accordance with my upbringing. I was in a position to provide a chorus, to pay
for a war-galley, and to be assessed to property-tax. I renounced no honor able
ambition either in public or in private life: and rendered good service both to
the commonwealth and to my own friends. When I decided to take part in public
affairs, the political services I chose were such that I was repeatedly
decorated both by my own country and by many other Grecian cities and even my
enemies, such as you, never ventured to say that my choice was other than honor
able.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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