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Quote by Joseph Chatfield
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. – Archibald Philip Primrose

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