Demosthenes, cuius commemorato nomine maximae eloquentiae consummatio audientis animo oboritur, cum inter initia iuventae artis, quam adfectabat, primam litteram dicere non posset, oris sui vitium tanto studio expugnavit ut ea a nullo expressius referretur.
When the name of Demosthenes is spoken, the consummation of eloquence at its greatest leaps to the hearers mind. Yet in earliest youth he could not pronounce the first letter of his chosen art. But he broke down his speech defect with such determination that nobody pronounced that letter more distinctly.
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