A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
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Charles Horton Cooley
These are some quotes by American author Charles Horton Cooley Sociologist, who lived between 1866 and 1928.
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