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And in another passage1 he says,
“It is the duty of the true orator to seek out, hear,
read, discuss, handle and ponder everything that befalls in the life of man, since it is with this that the
orator is concerned and this that forms the material
with which he has to deal.”
1 ib. iii. xiv. 54.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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