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What can any
peroration present that is more calculated to stir
our pity? If you wait for the peroration to stir your
hearer's emotions over circumstances which you
have recorded unmoved in your statement of facts,
your appeal will come too late. The judge is
already familiar with them and hears their mention
without turning a hair, since he was unstirred when
they were first recounted to him. Once the habit
of mind is formed, it is hard to change it.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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