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“Rhetoric falls into three divisions, determined by the three classes of listeners to speeches. For of the three elements in speech-making--speaker, subject, and person addressed--it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech’s end and object.”

“Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance....at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say?”

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”

And an instant horror reigned in him—black, paralyzing, awful horror, clutching him at the heart;

“You must have the courage of your convictions, Jack, old lad. If you mean ‘Pooh!’ then you must say ‘Pooh!’ and the devil take the consequences.”

“The mind can see as well as the body. The body forgets sometimes; but the mind always remembers.”

“Well, I was thinking, we don’t really have any photographs of us. And I thought this song could be like a photo that captures us in this moment in our life together.”

“I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds.”

“When I thought on all the things I’d done with my own dad and how Judd could only remember hunting. Well, that was pitiful for a lifetime.”