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But in my young days advocates grown old in pleading used to lay it down as a rule that we should
never be in a hurry to propose that our opponent
should take an oath, just as we should never allow
him the choice of a judge1 nor select our judge
from among the supporters of the opposite side: for
if it is regarded as a disgrace to such a supporter2
to say anything against his client, it is surely a still
worse disgrace that he should do anything that will
harm his client's case.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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