“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin book The Stones of Venice
Volume III, chapter II, section 99.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Source: The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.”
A parody on Pope's lines: "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, / So known, so honoured at the House of Lords"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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