I only put this here because Charlie Chaplin was a comical genius.
It turns out that he was also a great philosopher, speaker, and intellectual.
I didn't know.
He wrote this speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ
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He was also a composer of some repute the best know were the theme "limelight" and the songs "Smile" and "This is My song" (recorded by Petula Clark and others)
http://www.ednapurviance.org/chaplininf ... music.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl47EmHmSaY - Limelight - you'll remember it when it gets to 1 minute 25 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XmLuTmKIM - This is my song - Petula Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Hi-ZKAKMo Smile - Nat King Cole
http://www.ednapurviance.org/chaplininf ... music.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl47EmHmSaY - Limelight - you'll remember it when it gets to 1 minute 25 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XmLuTmKIM - This is my song - Petula Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Hi-ZKAKMo Smile - Nat King Cole
There would appear to be a surfeit of prolixity and sesquipedalian content today please do not use a big word when a singularly un-loquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity