Speech is regarded as a great blessing to human being as animals have no power to talk. But speech can also be a great curse for, while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood.

A slip of tongue, the use of an unusual word or an ambiguous word, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend.

Again different classes of people use different vocabularies. The ordinary speech of an educated man may strike to an uneducated listener as showing pride; unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listener ,from what it means to our own classes.

Thus speech is not a gift to use lightly without thinking but one which demands careful handlings. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of men.

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