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motives are often discussed not merely to
convict the accused of the offence with which he is
charged, but also to defend him when he contends
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that his action was right, that is to say proceeded
from an honourable motive, a theme of which I have
spoken more fully in the third book.1
1 III. xi. 4–9.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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