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As regards the use of examples practically all authorities are with good reason agreed that there is no
subject to which they are better suited, since as a
[p. 513]
rule history seems to repeat itself and the experience
of the past is a valuable support to reason.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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