Brooks Avenue

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    My wife never quite forgets to put flowers in vases,
    Bizarre prints in the most unusual places,
    Give teas for poets, wear odoriferous furs.
    An awful blooming is hers.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.... And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)