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About Speech

Speech is a great blessing, but it can also be a great curse, for, while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood.

A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual or an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend. 


Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as showing pride.

Unwittingly we may use a word which bears a different meaning for our listener from what it does to men of our own class.

Thus speech is not a gift to use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handling. 

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