Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Enthusiasm is the most convincing orator it is like the functioning of an infallible law of nature. The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
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The most trying fools are the bright ones.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
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