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These words and acts are either
our own or those of others. With regard to words,
our own do us greater harm and bring us less profit
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than do those of others, while those of others bring
us greater profit and do us less harm than our own.
On the other hand, with regard to deeds, it is sometimes from our own and sometimes from those of
others that we derive the greatest advantage, as, for
example, when our opponent has done something
which tells in our favour: but our own acts are
always more injurious to our case than are those
of others.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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