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“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
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“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.”
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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
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“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
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“My father gave me these hints on speech-making: "Be sincere... be brief... be seated."”
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“A short speech may not be the best speech, but the best speech is a short one”

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“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”
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“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”
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“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers”
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“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
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