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But, as I think I said
in the first book,1 the really good teacher will not
burden himself with a larger number of pupils than
he can manage, and will prune any tendency to
excessive loquacity, limiting their remarks to the
actual points involved by the subject of the declamation and forbidding them to range, as some would
have them do, over every subject in heaven and
earth: further, he will either extend the period
within which he insists on their speaking, or will
permit them to divide their themes into several
portions.
1 I. ii. 15.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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