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In America, today is called “Memorial Day.” It was originally established to remember the fallen soldiers of the American War Between the States (Civil War) in the 19th century. Today it commemorates all fallen soldiers of the nation. It marks the unofficial beginning of the Summer holidays and is not often kept as a day [...]

(the statue is of Cicero, whom Quintilian thought the greatest rhetorician of his age). Below is an excerpt from Book 10 and Chapter 3 of Quintilian’s Institutions of Oration. There are more than a few excellent thoughts here about studying, writing, editing, and reflecting…. and burning the midnight oil, an expression we owe to ancients [...]