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If they can
only rise to the height of this conception, they will
find it easier to enter on this portion of their task,
and will cease to regard the road as impassable or
even hard. For the first and greatest of' the aims
we set before us, namely that we shall be good
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men, depends for its achievement mainly on the
will to succeed: and he that truly and sincerely
forms such resolve, will easily acquire those forms
of knowledge that teach the way to virtue.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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