To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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Quintilian was Roman orator and rhetorician (c. 35 – c. 100). Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian, although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts. Read more on Wikipedia →

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