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The easiest
course, however, is to denounce another's guilt, while
admitting our own in the same connexion. However, that is the part of an informer, not of a
pleader. But if there is no excuse available, penitence is our only hope. For the man who is
converted to the hatred of his own errors, may
perhaps be regarded as sufficiently reformed.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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