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Now all these arguments deal with the greater or
the less or else with things that are equal, and if we
follow up such fine distinctions, there will be no
limit to our division into species. For the comparison of things is infinite; things may be more
pleasant, more serious, more necessary, more honourable, more useful. I say no more for fear of falling
into that very garrulity which I deprecate.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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