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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. - Benjamin F

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. – Benjamin Franklin

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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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The tongue can paint what the eye cant see. – Chinese Proverb

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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