[4]
There are other points where there is much
need of instruction: above all, unformed minds
which are liable to be all the more deeply impressed
by what they learn in their days of childish
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ignorance, must learn not merely what is eloquent;
it is even more important that they should study
what is morally excellent.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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