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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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The all-important gift of an orator is to respond to change and variety in things.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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35
Died:
96
(aged 61)
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