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| Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius |
| Edward Gibbon |
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| Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty |
| Joseph Addison |
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| I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. |
| Yogi Berra |
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| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation. |
| Lillian Hellman |
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| The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. |
| Douglas Adams |
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| The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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