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The latter, however, approve of
the path on which they have been launched whatever its nature, and it is difficult to change the convictions implantted in boyhood, for the excellent reason
that everybody prefers to have learned rather than
to be in process of learning.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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