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And if the danger can be avoided by any
ambiguity of expression, tile speaker's cunning will
meet with universal approbation. On the other
hand, the actual business of the courts has never
yet involved such necessity for silence, though at
times they require something not unlike it, which
is much more embarrassing for the speaker, as, for
example, when he is hampered by the existence of
powerful personages, whom he must censure if
he is to prove his case.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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