"I would tell myself that I was..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
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“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”
“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”
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“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.”
“As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.”
“Yet through delivery orators succeed,I feel that I am far behind indeed.[Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]”