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The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it…
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In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit,…
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives…
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A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great…
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love…
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Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage…
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It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since…
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the…
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There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever…
— Samuel Johnson
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Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,…
— Gino Bartali
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Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence…
— Samuel Johnson
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Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
— Euripides
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It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment…
— David Hume
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives…
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
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