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For the same reason, the wealth
of language that marks the historian should be from
time to time imported into portions of our written
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exercises, and we should indulge in the easy freedom of dialogue. Nay, it may even be advantageous
to amuse ourselves with the writing of verse, just as
athletes occasionally drop the severe regime of diet
and exercise to which they are subjected and refresh
themselves by taking a rest and indulging in more
dainty and agreeable viands.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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