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Sincere enthusiasm is the only orator who always persuades. It is like an art the rules of which never fail; the simplest man with enthusiasm persuades better than the most eloquent with none.

La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, (1665, 1678), eighth maxim. 

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