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Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

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George Meredith

Speech is the small change of silence.

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Calvin Coolidge

If you don’t say anything you won’t be called on to repeat it.

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In Maine we have a saying that there’s no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

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Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack!

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William Shakespeare

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

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Hubert Humphrey

I’ve never thought my speeches were too long I’ve rather enjoyed them.

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Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

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When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

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In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

speakers, speeches