“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”
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“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others”
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.”