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“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.”
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- Source:
- Life of Demosthenes.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0f2cee5cb17f87a1d5c8cb8e240164c68f5ce54ff6487a4ec9e6fc50c880b72b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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