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• Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who…
• Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and…
• The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully…
• The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond…
• Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely…
• I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife…
• It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife…
• What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the…
• Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial…
• He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher…
• The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and…
• A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race…

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