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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to read more
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: 
for they think that they shall be read more 
 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: 
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 
 The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
 [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]  
 The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
 [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] 
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
 His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
 Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."  
 His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
 Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." 
 For brevity is very good,
 Where we are, or are not understood.  
 For brevity is very good,
 Where we are, or are not understood. 
 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your 
flesh: for as ye have yielded read more 
 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your 
flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to 
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your 
members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.