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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

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Among the numerous luxuries of the table…coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions…is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. – Benjamin Franklin

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Benjamin Franklin
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his hearts the last part moves, her last, the tongue. – Benjamin Franklin

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Men
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Benjamin Franklin
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Persuasion
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. – Johann von Goethe

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Persuasion

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. – Benjamin Franklin

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Persuasion

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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Persuasion

That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb

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Persuasion

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. – Herbert Read

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Its amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it. – Paul McEuen

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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. – Bela Lugosi

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The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. – Newt Gingrich

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