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Show Brevity the Highest Point of Eloquence The story is told that when Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln was conferring with a committee over a speech the President Presi-dent was to make, he said : "If I am to talk 45 minutes I will not need any time for preparation, but if I am to speak 10 minutes I would like a week to get my remarks ready." Lincoln could say more In a few words than any man of modern .times. In literature and oratory, it has always al-ways been the brief, simple, lucid style of expression that has created the most lasting impression. The late Senator Beveridge was never able to live down the quip of "Mr. Dooley," who described one of his oratorical flights in the senate as a "spache ye cud waltz to." Many of our writers nnd public speakers should learn with Cicero that "Brevity ls a great praise of eloquence." elo-quence." Thrift Magazine. |