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The facts themselves must be allowed to excite the
suspicions of the judge, and we must clear away all
other points, leaving nothing save what will suggest
the truth. In doing this we shall find emotional
appeals, hesitation and words broken by silences
most effective. For thus the judge will be led to
seek out the secret which he would not perhaps
believe if he heard it openly stated, and to believe
in that which he thinks he has found out for himself.
But however excellent our figures,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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