Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

   Introduction

   12:20
2. Chapter 2

   How To Use This Book

   04:52
3. Chapter 3

   Plan Of Study

   04:52
4. Chapter 4

   Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

   05:13
5. Chapter 5

   Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

   04:10
6. Chapter 6

   Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

   03:57
7. Chapter 7

   Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

   02:47
8. Chapter 8

   Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

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9. Chapter 9

   Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

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10. Chapter 10

    Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

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11. Chapter 11

    Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

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12. Chapter 12

    Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

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13. Chapter 13

    Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

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14. Chapter 14

    Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

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15. Chapter 15

    Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

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16. Chapter 16

    Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

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17. Chapter 17

    Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

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18. Chapter 18

    Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

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19. Chapter 19

    Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

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20. Chapter 20

    Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

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21. Chapter 21

    Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

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22. Chapter 22

    Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

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23. Chapter 23

    Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

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24. Chapter 24

    Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

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25. Chapter 25

    Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

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26. Chapter 26

    Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

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27. Chapter 27

    Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

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28. Chapter 28

    Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

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29. Chapter 29

    Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

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30. Chapter 30

    Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

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31. Chapter 31

    Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

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32. Chapter 32

    Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

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33. Chapter 33

    Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

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34. Chapter 34

    Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

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35. Chapter 35

    Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

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36. Chapter 36

    Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

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37. Chapter 37

    Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered

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38. Chapter 38

    Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

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39. Chapter 39

    Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

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40. Chapter 40

    Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

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41. Chapter 41

    Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

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42. Chapter 42

    Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

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43. Chapter 43

    Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

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44. Chapter 44

    Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

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45. Chapter 45

    Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

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46. Chapter 46

    Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

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47. Chapter 47

    Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

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48. Chapter 48

    Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

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49. Chapter 49

    Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

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50. Chapter 50

    Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

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51. Chapter 51

    Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

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52. Chapter 52

    Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

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53. Chapter 53

    Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

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54. Chapter 54

    Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

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55. Chapter 55

    Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

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56. Chapter 56

    Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

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57. Chapter 57

    Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

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58. Chapter 58

    Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling

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59. Chapter 59

    Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate

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60. Chapter 60

    Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship

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61. Chapter 61

    Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy

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62. Chapter 62

    Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility

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63. Chapter 63

    Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish

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64. Chapter 64

    Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome

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65. Chapter 65

    Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings

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66. Chapter 66

    Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek

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67. Chapter 67

    Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion

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68. Chapter 68

    Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale

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69. Chapter 69

    Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...

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70. Chapter 70

    Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...

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71. Chapter 71

    Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..

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72. Chapter 72

    Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...

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73. Chapter 73

    Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...

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74. Chapter 74

    Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..

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75. Chapter 75

    Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...

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76. Chapter 76

    Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life

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77. Chapter 77

    Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

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78. Chapter 78

    Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride

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79. Chapter 79

    Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life

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80. Chapter 80

    Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality

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81. Chapter 81

    Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality

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82. Chapter 82

    Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion

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83. Chapter 83

    Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion

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84. Chapter 84

    Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial

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85. Chapter 85

    Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions

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86. Chapter 86

    Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance

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87. Chapter 87

    Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception

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88. Chapter 88

    Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action

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89. Chapter 89

    Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude

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90. Chapter 90

    Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress

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91. Chapter 91

    Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason

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92. Chapter 92

    Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy

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93. Chapter 93

    Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal

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94. Chapter 94

    Business Phrases

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95. Chapter 95

    Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent

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96. Chapter 96

    Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell

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97. Chapter 97

    Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

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98. Chapter 98

    Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows

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99. Chapter 99

    Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality

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100. Chapter 100

     Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge

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101. Chapter 101

     Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips

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102. Chapter 102

     Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues

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103. Chapter 103

     Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed

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104. Chapter 104

     Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind

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105. Chapter 105

     Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries

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106. Chapter 106

     Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind

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107. Chapter 107

     Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

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108. Chapter 108

     Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech

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109. Chapter 109

     Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse

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110. Chapter 110

     Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne

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111. Chapter 111

     Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...

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112. Chapter 112

     Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre

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113. Chapter 113

     Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow

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114. Chapter 114

     Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs

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115. Chapter 115

     Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream

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116. Chapter 116

     Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...

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117. Chapter 117

     Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

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118. Chapter 118

     Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

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119. Chapter 119

     Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...

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120. Chapter 120

     Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace

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121. Chapter 121

     Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle

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122. Chapter 122

     Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn

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123. Chapter 123

     Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed

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124. Chapter 124

     Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that

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125. Chapter 125

     Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before

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126. Chapter 126

     Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me

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127. Chapter 127

     Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought

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128. Chapter 128

     Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that

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129. Chapter 129

     Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!

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130. Chapter 130

     Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?

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131. Chapter 131

     Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling

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132. Chapter 132

     Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask

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133. Chapter 133

     Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion

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134. Chapter 134

     Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me

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135. Chapter 135

     Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected

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136. Chapter 136

     Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this

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137. Chapter 137

     Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing

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138. Chapter 138

     Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know

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139. Chapter 139

     Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of

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140. Chapter 140

     Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede

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141. Chapter 141

     Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me

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142. Chapter 142

     Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here

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143. Chapter 143

     Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor

     09:41
144. Chapter 144

     Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations

     10:38
145. Chapter 145

     Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view

     10:38
146. Chapter 146

     Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose

     09:25
147. Chapter 147

     Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said

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148. Chapter 148

     Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true

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149. Chapter 149

     Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought

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150. Chapter 150

     Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this

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151. Chapter 151

     Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say

     07:43
152. Chapter 152

     Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization

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153. Chapter 153

     Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard

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154. Chapter 154

     Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed

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155. Chapter 155

     Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly

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156. Chapter 156

     Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say

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157. Chapter 157

     Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language

     07:01
158. Chapter 158

     Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts

     07:21
159. Chapter 159

     Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety

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160. Chapter 160

     Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions

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161. Chapter 161

     Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance

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162. Chapter 162

     Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence

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163. Chapter 163

     Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money

     10:34
164. Chapter 164

     Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling

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165. Chapter 165

     Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

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