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Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Lord Chesterfield
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Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.415, OUP Oxford
Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.