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et hercule necesse est aut similes
aut dissimiles bonis sirus. similem raro natura
praestat, frequenter imitatio. sed hoc ipsum, quod
[p. 76]
tanto faciliorem nobis rationem rerum omnium facit
quam fuit iis, qui nihil quod sequerentur habuerunt,
nisi caute et cum iudicio apprehenditur, nocet.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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