Modern Rides

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“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 by the hour.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)