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  • The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629