Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71
topic: Communication, Apology, Men, Escapade, Gags