People who can speak well, speak briefly.

So that I am stupid, am I not?
But as this gift of stupidity is natural to me, why shouldn't I make skilful use of it?
And I do make use of it.
It's true that as I came here, I did think, at first, of being silent.
But you know silence is a great talent, and therefore incongruous for me, and secondly silence would be risky, anyway.

So I made up my mind finally that it would be best to talk, but to talk stupidly--that is, to talk and talk and talk--to be in a tremendous hurry to explain things, and in the end to get muddled in my own explanations, so that my listener would walk away without hearing the end, with a shrug, or, better still, with a curse.

You succeed straight off in persuading them of your simplicity, in boring them and in being incomprehensible--three advantages all at once! Do you suppose anybody will suspect you of mysterious designs after that?
Why, every one of them would take it as a personal affront if anyone were to say I had secret designs.

And I sometimes amuse them too, and that's priceless.