[BNP/E3, 27²¹L⁴ – 9]

If you had told Shakespeare’s Kinsmen: this is Shakespeare the great genius, they would have cried in laughter: ”Genius? No, that is hilarious.”

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Nabo’s speech.

In my opinion the best orator is he who speaks best.... He who speaks best is he whose words, whose gestures, also whose speech is the best possible in[1] the spit.

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“Th world, sir, consumes less wine than it produces”

“Well,” replied the Dr. “it is not my fault.”

By-the-by, did it even consumes more than it produced? Yes, sir, it did. But this ever did this.

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If the vice regarding wine be drinking in excess, the Dr. had that vice; but if it be getting drunk, if by “drinking in excess”, getting drunk be implied, then must surely the Dr. had not this vice, and, in that case, no vice at all.

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