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just as doctors have to do more than treat the
ailments which meet the eye, and need also to
discover those which he hid, since their patients
often conceal the truth, so the advocate must look
out for more points than his client discloses to him.
After he considers that he has given a sufficiently
patient hearing to the latter's statements, he must
assume another character and adopt the rôle of his
opponent, urging every conceivable objection that a
discussion of the kind which we are considering may
permit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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