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It is, as a
rule, unbecoming to raise or contract the shoulders.
For it shortens the neck and produces a mean and
servile gesture, which is even suggestive of dishonesty when men assume an attitude of flattery,
admiration or fear.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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