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I can say with a good conscience that, as far as
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my poor powers have permitted, I have published
frankly and disinterestedly, for the benefit of such
as might wish to learn, all that my previous knowledge and the researches made for the purpose of
this work might supply. And to have taught what
lie knows is satisfaction enough for any good man.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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