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Polybius, Histories, book 10, Importance of Practice (search)
ore when he sees
the boy, without a pause for thought, reading off seven or five
lines at a breath, he will not easily be induced to believe
that he has not read the book before; and certainly not, if he
is able also to observe the appropriate enunciation, the
proper separations of the words, and the correct use of the
rough and smooth breathings. The moral is, not to give up
any useful accomplishment on account of its apparent difficulties, but to persevere till it becomes a matter of habit,
which is the way mankind have obtained all good things. And
especially is this right when the matters in question are
such as are often of decisive importance to our safety.
I was led to say this much in connexion with my former
assertion that "all the arts had made such progress in our
age that most of them were reduced in a manner to exact
sciences." And therefore this too is a point in which history
properly written is of the highest utility. . . .
Antiochus in Parthia, B.C. 209-5. See ch. 31.