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"You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?"
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"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."
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"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary."
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"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."
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"The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."
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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
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"Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided."
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"Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Thought
"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
Rhetoric
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
Work
"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
Man
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will
"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."
Family
"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
Purpose
"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
Creativity
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
Nature
"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
Art
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