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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in ca

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. – Johann von Goethe

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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. – Proverb

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

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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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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney

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