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But even perfectly
correct figures must not be packed too closely together.
Changes of facial expression and glances of the eyes
are most effective in pleading, but if the orator never
ceases to distort his face with affected grimaces or to
wag his head and roll his eyes, he becomes a laughing-stock. So too oratory possesses a natural mien,
which while it is far from demanding a stolid and
immovable rigidity should as far as possible restrict
itself to the expression with which it is endowed by
nature.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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