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For when we are defending, there should always be an
increase of force in the treatment of questions and we
should proceed from the weaker to the stronger,
whether the points we raise are of the same or of a
different character.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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