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Demosthenes on Saint Patrick's Day

384 BC–322 BC Greece

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The opportunities of fortune wait not for our dilatoriness and reluctance.

IV. First Philippic (-1)

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

XVIII. On the Crown (-330)

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