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The man, most man,
Works best for men: and, if most man indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
men: masculinity
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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and co ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
speeches and speechmaking
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The passions are the only orators that are always successful in persuading. They are a kind of art in nature, that proceeds upon i ...
François La Rochefoucauld, Duc De
passion | persuasion | oratory
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Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
Or rather do I not in plainest truth
Tell you I do not nor I cannot love you?
Shakespeare
plain-speaking | hate
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I took him for the plainest harmless creature
That breathed upon the earth a Christian; ...
Shakespeare
trust | secrets | hypocrisy
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He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English to ...
Henry David Thoreau
Carlyle, Thomas
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