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But the true orator will not merely be able to
achieve all the feats of which I have spoken with
supreme excellence, but with the utmost ease as
well. For the sovereign power of eloquence and
the voice that awakens well-deserved applause will
[p. 495]
be free from the perpetual distress of harassing
anxiety which wastes and fevers the orator who
painfully corrects himself and pines away over the
laborious weighing and piecing together of his
words.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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