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quae si ex eo, quod plures faciunt,
nomen accipiat, periculosissimum dabit praeceptum,
non orationi modo sed (quod maius est) vitae.
unde enim tantum boni, ut pluribus quae recta
sunt placeant? igitur ut velli et comam in gradus
frangere et in balneis perpotare, quamlibet haec
invaserint civitatem, non erit consuetudo, quia
nihil horum caret reprehensione; at lavamur et
tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine: sic in
loquendo, non si quid vitiose multis insederit, pro
regula sermonis accipiendum erit.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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