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"When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it."

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"It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?"

Eileen Aitkins

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"Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts."

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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"Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech."

Thornton Wilder

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"The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air."

Cyril Connolly

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"Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates."

Thomas Mann

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking."

Woodrow T. Wilson

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"Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few."

Cato The Elder

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"Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour."

Thomas Jefferson

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"Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches."

Otto Von Bismarck

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"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."

David Henry Thoreau

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"Speech is always bolder than action."

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

Oliver Wendall Holmes

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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

D. H. Lawrence

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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."

Alfred North Whitehead

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"Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape."

Oriana Fallaci

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"For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower."

Paul Goodman

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"I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady."

George Bernard Shaw

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"Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?"

Kin Hubbard

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"A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting."

Source Unknown

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