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“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”
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- Source:
- Of Hearing. 6.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee331a44962bf35363817dd510ca257eca0e4e53fab746e0eea731015585c385
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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