The Devil's Dictionary: Oratory

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff Information
by Ambrose Bierce
OPTIMIST
ORPHAN

ORATORY

-n.

A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

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