Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
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What is uttered is finished and done with.
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The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the 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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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Congress
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Half wits talk much, but say little.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it
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