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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least


John Morley

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FEOUDE A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the gr...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ab...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY