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But I shall overload this book with illustrations and
turn it into a common jest-book, if I continue to
quote each jest that was made by our forefathers.
[p. 475]
All forms of argument afford equal opportunity for
jests. Augustus for example employed definition
when he said of two ballet-dancers who were engaged
in a contest, turn and turn about, as to who could make
tile most exquisite gestures, that one was a dancer and
the other merely interrupted the dancing.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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