England Average

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“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“May you be ordinary;
Have, like other women,
An average of talents....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)