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If this was
done in days when every speech was designed for
practical purposes rather than display and the courts
were far stricter than to-day, how much more should
we do it now, when the passion for producing a
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thrill of pleasure has forced its way even into cases
where a man's life or fortunes are in peril? I shall
say later to what extent I think we should indulge
popular taste in this respect: in the meantime I
shall admit that some such indulgence is necessary.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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