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"Definite speech means clarity of mind."
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"I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -"
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"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
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"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth."
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"A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding."
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
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"Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows."
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"When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose."
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
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"Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech."
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"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."
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"The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue."
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"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible."
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"Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
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"A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well."
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"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
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"I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course."
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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."
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