Nothing advertises itself so thoroughly as conceit during a speech. One may be so full of self as to be empty. Voltaire said, "We must conceal self-love." But that can not be done. You know this to be true, for you have recognized overweening self-love in others. If you have it, others are seeing it in you. There are things in this world bigger than self, and in working for them self will be forgotten, or--what is better--remembered only so as to help us win toward higher things.
The trouble with many speakers is that they go before an audience with their minds a blank. It is no wonder that nature, abhorring a vacuum,fills them with the nearest thing handy, which generally happens to be,"I wonder if I am doing this right! How does my hair look? I know I shall fail." Their prophetic souls are sure to be right.
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