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On the other hand in deliberative oratory there
will never be any doubt about circumstances wholly
in our favour. For there can clearly be no doubt about
points against which there is nothing to be said.
Consequently as a rule all deliberative speeches are
based simply on comparison, and we must consider
what we shall gain and by what means, that it may be
possible to form an estimate whether there is more
advantage in the aims we pursue or greater disadvantage in the means we employ to that end.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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