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We
must not, therefore, allow the effect which we have
produced to fall flat, and must consequently abandon
our appeal to the emotion just when that emotion
is at its height, nor must we expect anyone to
weep for long over another's ills. For this reason
our eloquence ought to be pitched higher in this
portion of our speech than in any other, since,
wherever it fails to add something to what has preceded, it seems even to diminish its previous effect,
while a diminuendo is merely a step towards the
rapid disappearance of the emotion.
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