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Again, with a view to augmenting
or attenuating the force of some point, we may
exaggerate and overstate the truth: we may ask
questions, or, what is much the same, enquire of
others and set forth our own opinion. There is also
available the device of dissimulation, when we say
one thing and mean another, the most effective of
all means of stealing into the minds of men and a
most attractive device, so long as we adopt a conversational rather than a controversial tone.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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