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But these different kinds of
work, of which I speak, are not merely the product
of different authors, but have each their own following of admirers, with the result that the perfect
orator has not yet been found, a statement which
perhaps may be extended to all arts, not merely
because some qualities are more evident in some
artists than in others, but because one single form
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will not satisfy all critics, a fact which is due in
part to conditions of time or place, in part to the
taste and ideals of individuals.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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