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And it is not enough merely to arrange
the various parts: each several part has its own
internal economy, according to which one thought
will come first, another second, another third, while
we must struggle not merely to place these thoughts
in their proper order, but to link them together and
give them such cohesion that there will be no trace
of any suture: they must form a body, not a congeries
of limbs.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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