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THE CAUTIOUS STYLE
A. But if this were known to all, it would be injurious to the majority. You yourself call your opinions dangerous to those in danger, and yet you make them public? B. I write so that neither the mob, nor the populi, nor the parties of all kinds can read me. So my opinions will never be “public opinions.” A. How do you write, then? B. Neither usefully nor pleasantly—for the three classes I have mentioned.