• The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

  Alphonse De Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian 1790-1869
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understand
2. orators
3. affect
4. those

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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. by : Alphonse De Lamartine

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