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He who stabs you in the dark with a pen would do the same with a penknife, were he equally safe from detection and the law.
He who stabs you in the dark with a pen would do the same with a penknife, were he equally safe from detection and the law.
Approximate author period: c. 80 AD · classical
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- Quintilian
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- Approximate author period: c. 80 AD · classical
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 53 · printed citation: Quintilian · subject: Criticism
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