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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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