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even common sayings and popular beliefs may
be found to be useful. For they form a sort of
testimony, which is rendered all the more impressive
by the fact that it was not given to suit special cases,
but was the utterance or action of minds swayed
neither by prejudice or influence, simply because it
seemed the most honourable or honest thing to say
or do.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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