The Importance of Wide Reading: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.4.4

“It isn’t enough to read poets alone: you have to work through all sorts of authors, not just because of the content, but for the words, which gain their authority from great authors.”

Nec poetas legisse satis est: excutiendum omne scriptorum genus, non propter historias modo, sed verba, quae frequenter ius ab auctoribus sumunt.

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