Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.

Author: Thomas Paine
Year: 1772
Year evidence: The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), p. 20
Source: Quotes / 1770s — The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), p. 20
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