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When, however, it is respect for some person that
hampers us (which I mentioned as the second condition1 under which such figures may be used), all
the greater caution is required because the sense of
shame is a stronger deterrent to all good men than
fear. In such cases the judge must be impressed
with the fact that we are hiding what we know and
keeping back the words which our natural impulse
to speak out the truth would cause to burst from
our lips. For those against whom we are speaking,
together with the judges and our audience, would
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assuredly be all the more incensed by such toying
with detraction, if they thought that we were
inspired by deliberate malice.
1 See § 66.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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