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O the orator's joys!
To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. "Calamus: A Song of Joys," Leaves of Grass (1855).

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