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The definition which best suits its
real character is that which makes rhetoric the science
of speaking well. For this definition includes all the
virtues of oratory and the character of the orator as
well, since no man can speak well who is not good
himself.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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