"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes,……" — Johann Georg Hamann

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• The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are… — Noah Webster
• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' — Plutarch
• Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless… — Madeleine L'Engle
• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he… — Plutarch
• That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many… — Orson Scott Card
• The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third. — Orson Scott Card
• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have… — Kate Atkinson
• Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other… — James Dean

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