"Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical."
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"A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener."
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"One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love."
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"Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have."
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"It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!"
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"The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action."
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"If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers."
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"There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth"
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"The poetry of speech."
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"Every writer has to write his speech."
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