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However, I pass this by;
for I am sure that no one with the least smattering
of literary culture will have the slightest hesitation
in agreeing with me. I will proceed to my next
point, that no one will achieve sufficient skill even in
speaking, unless he makes a thorough study of all
the workings of nature and forms his character on
the precepts of philosophy and the dictates of reason.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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