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" Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. "

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" Action is character. "

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