VOX POPOLI
VERBATIM POST
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"[B]efore some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people one cannot instruct."
- Rhetoric, Aristotle
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With the benefit of an additional 2,333 years of human history, the only way this statement could be improved upon would be to replace the word "some" with "most".
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