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It is also an ugly habit to protrude the
lips, open them with a sudden smack,1 compress
them, draw them apart and bare the teeth, or twist
them awry to one side till they almost reach the
ear, or to curl them in scorn, or let them droop, or
allow the voice to escape only on one side. It is
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also unbecoming to lick or bite them, since their
motion should be but slight even when they are
employed in forming words. For we must speak
with the mouth rather than the lips.
1 It is hard to distinguish between scindere and didurere. I have adopted a suggestion of Spalding's.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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