[59]
The majority of readers regard this passage as lacking in distinction, but this very fact merely serves
[p. 83]
to show how the art which is scarce detected by a
reader succeeded in hoodwinking the judge. It is
qualities of this kind that make the statement of facts
credible.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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