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For when we have done all this, we may still
account ourselves only too fortunate if we have
succeeded in communicating the fire of our passion
to the judge: consequently, we can have no hope
of moving him if we speak with languor and indifference, nor of preventing him from yielding to the
narcotic influence of our own yawns.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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