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The influence
of nature consists not merely in the fact that one
man is quicker or cleverer than another in the
invention of jests (for such a power can be increased
by teaching), but also in the possession of some
peculiar charm of look or manner, the effect of which
is such that the same remarks would be less entertaining if uttered by another.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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