Fantastic point about the distinction between writing and speaking. Benjamin Franklin famously trained himself to speak in terms of "modest diffidence": http:/

Fantastic point about the distinction between writing and speaking. Benjamin Franklin famously trained himself to speak in terms of "modest diffidence": http://books.google.com/books?id=D29W3OkXFq4C&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=benjamin+franklin+modest+diffidence&source=web&ots=g4AXYQ40C7&sig=dfXbJQul-JawahvrUPpBIsyWz0I&hl=en&ei=qo2MSfnPHMOe-gaqkaifCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result http://books.google.com/books?id=D29W3OkXFq4C&pg=PA13&#3...