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Let no one, however, regard the advice I have
given as to the attention due to the development
of character and the study of the law as being
impugned by the fact that we are familiar with
many who, because they were weary of the toil
entailed on those who seek to scale the heights
of eloquence, have betaken themselves to the study
of law as a refuge for their indolence. Some of
these transfer their attention to the praetor's edicts
or the civil law,1 and have preferred to become
specialists in formulae, or legalists, as Cicero2 calls
them, on the pretext of choosing a more useful
branch of study, whereas their real motive was its
comparative easiness.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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