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It is an open question whether he should never
demand a fee for his services. To decide the
question at first sight would be the act of a fool.
For we all know that by far the most honourable
course, and the one which is most in keeping with a
liberal education and that temper of mind which we
desiderate, is not to sell our services nor to debase
the value of such a boon as eloquence, since there
are not a few things which come to be regarded as
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cheap, merely because they have a price set upon
them.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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