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For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent. — Quintilian

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For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

In the original Latin

pectus est enim, quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

Quintilian
Institutio Oratoria · 95
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EloquenceRhetoric
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Philosophical literature
Time
95Classical antiquity
Person
Quintilian
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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 10, ch. 7, sect. 15.

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