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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- De Oratore [On the Orator, On Oratory], Book 1, ch. 28 (1.28) / sec. 129 (55 BC) [tr. Sutton/Rackham (1940)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something in which you have blundered. [Nihil est enim tam insigne, nec tam ad diuturnitatem memoriae stabile, quam id, in quo aliquid offenderis.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: For nothing makes so remarkable, so deep an impression upon the memory as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something in which you have blundered. </p>
<p><em>[Nihil est enim tam insigne, nec tam ad diuturnitatem memoriae stabile, quam id, in quo aliquid offenderis.]</em></p>
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<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>De Oratore [On the Orator, On Oratory]</i>, Book 1, ch. 28 (1.28) / sec. 129 (55 BC) [tr. Sutton/Rackham (1940)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerodeoratore01ciceuoft/page/90/mode/2up?q=%22have+blundered%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0120%3Abook%3D1%3Asection%3D129#:~:text=nihil%20est%20enim%20tam%20insigne%20nec%20tam%20ad%20diuturnitatem%20memoriae%20stabile%20quam%20id%2C%20in%20quo%20aliquid%20offenderis.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>For nothing makes so remarkable, so deep an impression upon the memory as a miscarriage.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Oratory_(Guthrie)/First_Conference#CHAP._XXVIII:~:text=for%20nothing%20makes%20so%20remarkable%2C%20so%20deep%20an%20impression%20upon%20the%20memory%20as%20a%20miscarriage">Guthrie</a> (1755)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For nothing makes so remarkable, so deep an impression upon the memory as a <i>defect</i>.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/On_Oratory_and_Orators/GNQAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22makes%20so%20remarkable%22">Source</a> (1808)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nothing, indeed, is so much noticed, or makes an impression of such lasting continuance on the memory, as that in which you give any sort of offense.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://attalus.org/cicero/deoratore1B.html#:~:text=Nothing%20indeed%20is%20so%20much%20noticed%2C%20or%20makes%20an%20impression%20of%20such%20lasting%20continuance%20on%20the%20memory%2C%20as%20that%20in%20which%20you%20give%20any%20sort%20of%20offence.">Watson</a> (1860)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For nothing so immediately attracts attention, or clings so tenaciously to the memory, as any defect.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_De_Oratore_of_Cicero_Translated_by_F/ZY5WAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22immediately%20attracts%20attention%22">Calvert</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For nothing, we know, strikes us so forcibly or makes such an indelible impression on the memory as that which somehow offends our taste.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044010525855&view=2up&seq=81&q1=%22offends%20our%20taste%22">Moor</a> (1892)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nothing attracts so much attention, or retains such a hold upon men's memories, as the occasion when you have made a mistake.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_classical/ETmlvCBCrOMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=cicero">Harbottle</a> (1906)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For nothing is so conspicuous or so indelibly imprinted on the memory as something that annoys you in any way.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900195091983/page/86/mode/2up?q=%22indelibly+imprinted%22">May/Wisse</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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