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and you won't be able to lay a pinky on us,
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and we don't have to fight you if we don't want to,
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because we own the fleet that dominates the sea.
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We have the money from our allies that pays for the fleet.
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As long as we have control of the sea
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you can ravage our country all you want to.
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We can get all the grain we need through imports.
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So, what are you going to do then?
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You'll have taken casualties for nothing
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and you still won't be able to compel us to do what you want.
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I think that's the argument that Pericles
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must have given to Pleistoanax.