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“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action."”
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- Source:
- Lives of the Ten Orators.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f2518902677020973218a2f1c08dda168a1bfc3fd64cdcb047d2bf31f26ab0bc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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