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Cicero the orator once in public praised Marcus Crassus whom he detested and shortly thereafter he spoke ill of him from the same spot. Crassus asked him why. “Did you not highly praise me in this place the last day?”
“I cannot deny it,” replied the orator, “I just wanted to show how such a poor specimen could be shown in better light with the eloquence at my command.”
Adolf Hitler sent the whole nation smarting from the unjust terms imposed upon them by the victorious Allies, into another war more catastrophic. They marched blindly to their death on rhetoric. Some Germans who were intellectuals got the message of hate but paid with their lives because they overlooked the fine print.
* Words with which you caress can wound as well.
benny