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The ancient Greeks, who seemed to have a god for more or less everything, had one, inevitably, for persuasion. Peitho (in Roman mythology, Suadela) was a companion of Aphrodite and is often depicted in Greco-Roman culture with a ball of silver twine.

In the musical Hamilton Aaron Burr says, “Talk less, smile more.” I say, “Whine less, write more.”