All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emers…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.340
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.340

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