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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, win convince others the more as he appears convinced himself.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, win convince others the more as he appears convinced himself.
Approximate author period: c. 1706 AD · early modern
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- Jonathan Swift
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- Approximate author period: c. 1706 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Swift. · page_353
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