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There are other conclusions
which, as I have said, are not necessary, whether as
regards both cause and effect or only one of the two.
For instance, “the sun colours the skin, but not
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everyone that is coloured receives that colour from
the sun; a journey makes the traveller dusty, but
every journey does not produce dust, nor is everyone
that is dusty just come from a journey.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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