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Ordinary People Who Know Nothing Of Phonetics Or Elocution Have Difficulties In Understanding Slow Speech Composed Of Perfect Sounds, While They Have No Difficulty In Comprehending An Imperfect Gabble If Only The Accent And Rhythm Are Natural.

One Day Every Major City In America Will Have A Telephone.

Wherever You May Find The Inventor, You May Give Him Wealth Or You May Take From Him All That He Has; And He Will Go On Inventing. He Can No More Help Inventing That He Can Help Thinking Or Breathing.

The Most Successful Men In The End Are Those Whose Success Is The Result Of Steady Accretion. It Is The Man Who Carefully Advances Step By Step, With His Mind Becoming Wider And Wider - And Progressively Better Able To Grasp Any Theme Or Situation - Persevering In What He Knows To Be Practical, And Concentrating His Thought Upon It, Who Is Bound To Succeed In The Greatest Degree.

The Great Advantage [the Telephone] Possesses Over Every Other Form Of Electrical Apparatus Consists In The Fact That It Requires No Skill To Operate The Instrument.