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For we are like
those who build a wall of unhewn stone: we cannot
hew or polish our words in order to make them fit
more compactly, and so we must take them as they
are and choose suitable positions for them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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