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Further, it always involves insincerity,
even though all insincerity does not imply affectation.
For it consists in saying something in an unnatural
or unbecoming or superfluous manner. Style may,
however, be corrupted in precisely the same number
of ways that it may be adorned. But I have discussed this subject at greater length in another
work,1 and have frequently called attention to it in
this, while I shall have occasion to mention it continually in the remaining books. For in dealing with
ornament, I shall occasionally speak of faults which
have to be avoided, but which are hard to distinguish
from virtues.
1 The lost De causis corruptae eloquentiae.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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