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It will be readily admitted by everyone that
words may be becoming or offensive in themselves.
There is therefore a further point, which presents
the most serious difficulty, that requires notice in
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this connexion: we must consider by what means
things which are naturally unseemly and which, had
we been given the choice, we should have preferred
not to say, may be uttered without indecorum.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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