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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
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"If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society."
"Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?"
"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains."
"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."
"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
"Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force."
"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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