"In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator."

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