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1. For more than 2,000 years the speeches of one man were considered models for public speakers.

2. This greek man Demosthenes, lived in the 4th century b.c.

3. Demosthenes stuttered badly as a youth.

4. Legend says that he practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles, and this cured the stutter.

5. After that, he took up oratory and became the greatest orator that Greece had ever known

6. Several of his speeches denounce King Philip of Macedonia.

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