Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1279 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) |
| QUOTATION: | Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Oratory |