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But we must remember only to invent
such things as cannot be checked by evidence: I
refer to occasions when we make our own minds
speak (and we are the only persons who are in their
secret) or put words in the mouth of the dead (for
what they say is not liable to contradiction) or
again in the mouth of someone whose interests are
identical with ours (for he will not contradict), or
finally in the mouth of our opponent (for he will not
be believed if he does deny).
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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