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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The first rule for speaking well is to think well.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Speech Speaking Well

Author:Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

“I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.”

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Author:W. S. Merwin

“If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.”

Ifs Wells Literature Understood Speaking Well

Author:Moliere

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments

“Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.”

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Author:John Flanagan

“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”

“To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

“The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

Ifs Wells Lying Grace Truth Is Praise Noble Excellent Godly Small Things God's Grace Speaking Well

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.”

Inspirational Wells Speak Talking Marriage Terrible Speech Speaking Well

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.”

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Author:George Muller

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.”

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Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)

Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)