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“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f1e0aedc0a7e9a4577cd2618202e5674b4b46baf7ad29e022ea79412d65c905
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“Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.”
William Wordsworth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”
Francis Bacon
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 't is a kind of heaven to…”
Nathaniel Lee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of…”
Coxe
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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