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Common arguments1 are readily appropriated, not
merely because they can be used by either party,
but because they are of greater service to the
speaker who is replying; for I shall not scruple to
repeat the warning which I have often given already;
the speaker who is first to employ such an argument makes it tell against himself.
1 i.e. are easy to make use of.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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