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But we must exercise our breathing capacity to make
it as great as possible. To produce this result Demosthenes used to recite as many successive lines as
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possible, while he was climbing a hill. He also, with
a view to securing fluency free from impediment,
used to roll pebbles under his tongue when speaking
in the privacy of his study.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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