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But we must
not lose sight of the fact that a different style is suitable to each kind of
Rhetoric. That of written compositions is not the same as that of debate; nor,
in the latter, is that of public speaking the same as that of the law courts.
But it is necessary to be acquainted with both; for the one requires a knowledge
of good Greek, while the other prevents the necessity of keeping silent when we
wish to communicate something to others, which happens to those who do not know
how to write.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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