Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. ✨ Mark …

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. ✨ Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man, p.174, Univ of California Press
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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. ✨ Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man, p.174, Univ of California Press

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