“I don't call that a failure, a real failure is when a man talks for an hour and says nothing.”
To Henry Howard, who had resolved never to attempt public speaking again after breaking down in attempting to speak in a church meeting. Reported in Dictionary of Australian Biography http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogHi-Hu.html#howard2|accessdate=2009-09-27.
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