Rhetoric Day 153

Posted on July 16, 2010 by David Oliver

[T]here is one thing which the masters of the art of speaking bring as peculiar to themselves; a style graceful, ornamented, and distinguished by certain masterly touches, and an artful polish.  Yet all this beauty of language, if the subject itself is not thoroughly understood and comprehended by the speaker, must be either empty or ridiculous...

- Cicero "De Oratore"

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