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But whereas, if the question turns on some
act of our own, we must make one statement and
stick to it, if it turns on an act committed by others,
we may cast suspicion on a number of different
points. In certain controversial themes of the schools,
however, in which it is assumed that we have put a
question and received no reply, we are at liberty to
enumerate all the possible answers that might have
been given.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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