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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
 I never, with important air,
 In conversation overbear.
  . . . .
   My tongue read more 
 I never, with important air,
 In conversation overbear.
  . . . .
   My tongue within my lips I rein;
    For who talks much must talk in vain. 
 And when you stick on conversation's burs,
 Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.  
 And when you stick on conversation's burs,
 Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. 
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
 Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of 
existence.  
 Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of 
existence. 
The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.
The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.
With thee conversing I forget the way.
With thee conversing I forget the way.