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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
With thee conversing I forget the way.
With thee conversing I forget the way.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
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
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a
sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the read more
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a
sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the
moment both themselves and their auditors.
They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company,
with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, read more
They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company,
with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste,
Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]
They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]
His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes
the hour very correctly.
His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes
the hour very correctly.
