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But our modern orators
cannot endure this and imagine that their art is
wasted unless it obtrudes itself, whereas as a matter
of fact the moment it is detected it ceases to be art.
We are the slaves of applause and think it the goal
of all our effort. And so we betray to the judges
what we wish to display to the bystanders.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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