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The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.