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Preparation Behind Improvised Speeches

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 11.

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Preparation Behind Improvised Speeches

The Paris correspondent of the London Times once said to Thiers: "It is marvelous, M. le President, how you deliver long, improvised speeches about which you have not time to reflect." "You are not paying me a compliment," he replied, "it is criminal in a statesman to improvise speeches on public affairs. The speeches you call improvised, why for fifty years I have been rising at five in the morning to prepare them."