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To understand it, is to know the secret not only of reaching the heart, but frequently of convincing the understanding of man.
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Hoar suggests that understanding the emotional nuances of language is crucial for effective persuasion.
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The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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