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inde paulatim ad maiora tendere incipiet, laudare
claros viros et vituperare improbos, quod non simplicis utilitatis opus est. namque et ingenium
exercetur multiplici variaque materia, et animus
contemplatione recti pravique formatur, et multa
inde cognitio rerum venit exemplisque, quae sunt in
omni genere causarum potentissima, iam tum instruit, cum res poscet, usurum.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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