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Against
these persons, on the other hand, must be set those
who shun and dread all ornament of this kind, approving nothing that is not plain, humble and effortless,
with the result that by their reluctance to climb for
fear of falling they succeed merely in maintaining a
perpetual flatness. What sin is there in a good
epigram? Does it not help our case, or move the
judge, or commend the speaker to his audience?
It may be urged, perhaps,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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