"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
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