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Nor
must we pass by natural disposition, for avarice,
anger, pity, cruelty, severity and the like may often
be adduced to prove the credibility or the reverse of
a given act; it is for instance often asked whether a
[p. 217]
man's way of living be luxurious, frugal or parsimonious. Then there is occupation, since a rustic, a
lawyer, a man of business, a soldier, a sailor, a doctor
all perform very different actions.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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