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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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- Of Discourse.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8bf9c621adbe2ad4aeed697d7872f26ef17d7c0d2fc4b31c4d9de4461aac2819
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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