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The client must be subjected to a hosthe
cross-examination and given no peace: for by enquiring into everything, we shall sometimes come
upon the truth where we least expect it.
In fact, the advocate who is most successful in
getting up his case is he who is incredulous. For
the client promises everything: the people, he says,
will bear witness to the truth of what he says, he can
produce documentary evidence at a moment's notice
and there are some points which he says his opponent
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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