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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