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"The world's greatest orators have always spoken in threes. Julius Caesar's 'veni, vidi, vici,' for example. Or Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address: 'we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.' This observation comes from Kevin Dutton in his article, "The Power to Persuade" in Scientific American Mind (March 2010). He goes on to say...
"The device, known as the tricolon, is among a number of rhetorical secrets first identified by the speakers of the ancient world, classical orators such as Cicero, Demosthenes, and Socrates.... Its magic lies in its efficiency: a third word gives confirmation and completes a point, it is also economical, constituting the earliest stage at which a possible connection, implied by the first two words, may be substantiated. More than three, and you risk going on and on. Fewer than three, and your argument lands prematurely."
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