repeat the speech. When memorizing a speech it is always advisable to reduce it to a mere skeleton, a framework, and impress the mind with the thoughts before attempting to learn the words which are to express them. We should bear in mind that the words are only symbols, that they stand for something other than themselves, and that this other, the thought, is what we should look for, and unless we grasp the thought, the words themselves will not remain long with us. Of course, we must study words so that we may see the thought, in order that we may know their meaning and significance, but we should never study words for the sake of remembering words. If we did so, the words would only cumber the memory to the exclusion of thoughts, and make of the mind a receptacle of useless material things
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