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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. -- Quintilian
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it. -- Jann Wenner
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. -- Saint Basil
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. -- Noah Webster
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. -- Joseph Joubert
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation. -- Chanakya
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. -- Saadi
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say? -- Benjamin Whichcote

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