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“Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Roman Apophthegms. Cicero.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 081938f622d76e28edc541a057a3d8aafe32f0b0370daf8d86e3ff360b313877
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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