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  • [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

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  • It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

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  • Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

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    Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”
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Tacitus

  • Born: 56
  • Died: 117
  • Occupation: Historian
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