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To this must be added the fact that those
who devote themselves solely to the production of
reflexions cannot avoid giving utterance to many that
are trivial, flat or foolish. For their mere number
will so embarrass their author that selection will be
impossible. Consequently you will often find that
such persons will produce a division or an argument as
if it were an epigram, the only qualification necessary
being that it should come toward the close of the
period and be impressively delivered.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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