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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Evan Esar, (?? 1899-1995), Us humorist; He wrote Esar's Comic Dictionary in 1943, Humorous English in 1961, and 20,000 Quips and Quotes in 1968.