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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

William Hazlitt
Doe, Public Speaking, Orators
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.