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“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.”

Difficult Citizens Speech Tasks Ears Belly Difficult Tasks

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.”

Easy Difficult Enemy Fine Speech Everyday

Book:Framley parsonage

Source: Framley parsonage

“Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.”

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Book:The Duke's Children: Trollope's Works

Source: The Duke's Children: Trollope's Works

“It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.”

People Home Difficult Figures Serious Speech Jokes Compelling Eavesdropping Figures Of Speech

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.”

Ends Difficult Enemy Speech Weapons Overcoming Tongue

Book:Gods and Androids

Source: Gods and Androids

“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”

World Government Order Difficult Voice Silence Vision Journey Movement Speech Censorship Interiors Outrage Outside World Difficult Journeys

Book:Writing in an Age of Silence

Source: Writing in an Age of Silence

“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Book Use Feelings Language Difficult Havens Easier Speech Down And Lists Conclusion Love Feeling

Author:Jenny Diski

“The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc