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ac si omnia percenseas, nulla mansit1 ars, qualis inventa est, nec intra initium stetit,
nisi forte nostra potissimum tempora damnamus
huius infelicitatis, ut nunc demum nihil crescat.
nihil autem crescit sola imitatione.
1 mansit, Meister: sit, MSS.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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