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There is no point in the whole speech where confusion of memory or loss of fluency has a worse effect,
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for a faulty exordium is like a face seamed with scars;
and he who runs his ship ashore while leaving port
is certainly the least efficient of pilots.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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