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Quintilian

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BEAUTIFUL!
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QUINTILIAN Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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QUINTILIAN While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
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