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“poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.”
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.”
“The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.”
“True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.”
