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— David Hume"Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting."
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
— Jean de la Bruyere
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