#fluency

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. ↗

— David Antin

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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. ↗

— Xun Zi

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