"The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion."
— Persuasion

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, "On the Athenian Orators" — in Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 3 (August 1824), p. 124