What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Enthusiasm is the most convincing orator it is like the functioning of an infallible law of nature. The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
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