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Book I   Proposition 17
Similarly we can prove that
    the angles CAB, BCA are also less than two right angles,
and so are
    the angles ABC, CAB as well.

Therefore
    any two angles of the triangle ABC taken together in any manner are less than two right angles.

Being what it was required to prove.
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