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est et illud vitium nimium sollicite et circa omnia
momenta luctantis; suspectam enim facit iudici
causam, et frequenter, quae statim dicta omnem dubitationem sustulissent, dilata ipsis praeparationibus
fidem perdunt, quia patronus et aliis crediderit opus
fuisse. fiduciam igitur orator prae se ferat semperque ita dicat, tanquam de causa optime sentiat;
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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