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Nowadays, however, speakers think that anything with
which they choose to start is a proem and that
whatever occurs to them, especially if it be a reflexion
that catches their fancy, is an exordium. There are,
no doubt, many points that can be introduced into an
exordium which are common to other parts of a speech,
but the best test of the appropriateness of a point to
any part of a speech is to consider whether it would
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lose effect by being placed elsewhere.
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