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“It is a great mistake to think any thing too profound or rich for a popular audience. No train of thought is too deep, or subtle, or grand—but the manner of presenting it to their untutored minds should be peculiar. It should be presented in anecdote, or sparkling truism, or telling illustration, or stinging epithet; always in some concrete form, never in a logical, abstract, syllogistic shape.”

— Rufus Choate

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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