[122] And, while behaving like that, you treat us to your definition of all the qualities proper to a patriotic politician—as though you had bespoken a statue according to specification, and it had been delivered without the qualities specified ! As though talk, not deeds and policy, were the criterion of patriotism ! And then you raise your voice, like a clown at a carnival,
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and pelt me with epithets both decent and obscene, suitable for yourself and your kindred, but not for me.
On the Crown. Demosthenes. Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1926.
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