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And I would never carry my desire
for brevity so far as to refuse admission to details
which may contribute to the plausibility of our
narrative. Simplify and curtail your statement of
facts in every direction and you will turn it into
something more like a confession. Moreover, the
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circumstances of the case will often necessitate a
long statement of facts, in which case, as I have
already enjoined, the judge should be prepared for
it at the conclusion of the exordium. Next we must
put forth all our art either to shorten it or to render
it less tedious.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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