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they must not be
too numerous. For overcrowding will make them
obvious, and they will become ineffective without
becoming inoffensive, while the fact that we make
no open accusation will seem to be due not to
modesty, but to lack of confidence in our own cause.
In fact, we may sum up the position thus: our
figures will have most effect upon the judge when
he thinks that we use them with reluctance.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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