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Sallust1 did something similar when he wrote “I think it better to say
nothing of Carthage rather than say too little.” It
has always, therefore, been my custom not to tie myself down to universal or general rules (this being the
nearest equivalent I can find for the Greek catholic
rules). For rules are rarely of such a kind that their
validity cannot be shaken and overthrown in some
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particular or other.
1 Jug. xix.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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