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If I could not
dispose of all the points against me, I disposed of
the majority. “It is acknowledged that a man was
killed: but he was not killed in a solitary place,
such as might lead me to suspect that he was the
victim of robbers; he was not killed for the sake of
plunder, for nothing was taken from him; he was
not killed in the hope of inheriting his property, for
he was poor: the motive must therefore have been
hatred, since you are his enemy.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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