nam dum inpactae professionis obtentu novum scribendi morem gradatim appeto et veterem saltuatim dedisco, de bono oratore nil amplius habeo quam quod malus poeta esse plus coepi.
for by reason of the sacred calling which has been thrust upon me I am gradually essaying a new mode of composition and quickly unlearning the old one, and as a result there is nothing of the good prose-writer in me except that I have begun to be more decidedly a bad poet.
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