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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “If anyone of us had ventured to attempt oratorical effects by a speech, friendly jokes would have shown him at once that…”

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If anyone of us had ventured to attempt oratorical effects by a speech, friendly jokes would have shown him at once that speech-making was out of place.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin notes the informal nature of their meetings, where oratory was discouraged in favor of genuine interaction.

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