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Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
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No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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