"Speechification" Quotes from Famous Books
... on the subject of speechification, and hold that there is, everywhere, a vast amount too much of it. A sense of absurdity would be so strong upon me, if I got up at Birmingham to make a flourish on the advantages of education in the abstract for all sorts and conditions of men, that I ... — The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 • Charles Dickens |