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As
for the hands, without which all action would be
crippled and enfeebled, it is scarcely possible to
describe the variety of their motions, since they are
almost as expressive as words. For other portions
of the body merely help the speaker, whereas the
hands may almost be said to speak.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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