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There are, however, limits even to this
form of study; for when our words are good Latin,
full of meaning, elegant and aptly arranged, why
should we labour further? And yet there are some
who are never weary of morbid self-criticism, who
throw themselves into an agony of mind almost
over separate syllables, and even when they have
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discovered the best words for their purpose look for
some word that is older, less familiar, and less
obvious, since they cannot bring themselves to
realise that when a speech is praised for its words,
it implies that its sense is inadequate.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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