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Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Beauty
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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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Experience
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. – Howard W. Newton

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The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. – Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

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