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Nor shall any authority, however great, induce me
to abandon my opinion that it is always desirable to
render the judge attentive and ready to receive
[p. 27]
instruction. I am well aware that those who disagree with me urge that it is to the advantage of a
bad case that its nature should not be understood;
but such lack of understanding arises not from
inattention on the part of the judge, but from his
being deceived.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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