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For
as water is the natural element of fish, dry land
for creatures of the earth and the circumambient
atmosphere for winged things, even so it should
be easier to live according to nature than counter
to her will. As regards other accomplishments,
there are plenty of years available for their acquisition, even though we measure the life of man not
by the span of age, but by the period of youth. For
in every case order and method and a sense of proportion will shorten our labour.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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