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However, in every system of instruction there is some
slight necessity to pay attention to style; for it does make a difference, for
the purpose of making a thing clear, to speak in this or that manner; still, the
difference is not so very great, but all these things1 are mere outward show for pleasing the hearer;
wherefore no one teaches geometry in this way.
1 i.e. style, delivery, and acting, which are of no use to serious students.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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