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quod quidem cum iis, a
quibus clarissimarum civitatium mores sunt instituti,
tum eminentissimis auctoribus video placuisse. non
est tamen dissimulandum, esse nonnullos, qui ab hoc
prope publico more privata quadam persuasione
dissentiant. hi duas praecipue rationes sequi videntur: unam, quod moribus magis consulant fugiendo turbam hominum eius aetatis, quae sit ad
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vitia maxime prona, unde causas turpium factorum
saepe extitisse utinam falso iactaretur; alteram,
quod, quisquis futurus est ille praeceptor, liberalius
tempora sua impensurus uni videtur, quam si eadem
in plures partiatur.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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