“It does not make such a difference whether you are simply mute or employ no art for speaking. For it is not feasible that you can express what you think as it should be understood unless you acquire and strengthen the ability to speak by art.”
Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 61
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Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 66
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