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{{quote|''"Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead of persuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die with the hour."''|'''[[Thomas Jefferson]]'''}}
{{quote|''"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."''
''(Translation: I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.)''|'''Blaise Pascal''', "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657}}
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