Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven Into Eight Popular Lectures

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He called oratory a lost art,and toprove hiscontention he quoted from William Jennings Bryan's famous Chicago convention speech. He said: "What would a young woman think ofher loverwhowould say'My darling,thecrown of thorns shallnever ...

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