Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous howord, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend. Again, different classes of people use different vovabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a wood which bears a different meaning to our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift of use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike of all kinds and conditions of men.
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If one used the same style of language with everyone, one would sound
