How to Analyze People on Sight

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that the blood reserves so necessary to vivid thinking are free to go to
the brain. Without good blood coursing at a fairly rapid rate through
the brain no man can think keenly or concentratedly. This explains why
you think of so many important things when your stomach is empty that
never occur to you when your energy is being monopolized by digestion.


Heavy Dinners and Heavy Speeches

All public speakers have learned that a heavy dinner means a heavy
speech.

Elbert Hubbard's rule when on his speaking tours was one every orator
should follow. "Ten dollars extra if I have to eat," said Fra
Elbertus--a far cry from the days when we "fed up" the preacher at
Sunday dinner with the expectation of hearing a better sermon!