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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
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.]
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, read more
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.
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books
