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ELOQUENCE

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry. - "William Dean Howells"

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! - Letter to Professor Thomas Lounsbury, 21 July 1904

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. - "Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes"

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Postcard of bust by Ernfred Anderson (b.1896), Elmira sculpter.
The bust is part of the Elmira College collection at Elmira, New York.

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