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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song."

"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."

"What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent."
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
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