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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like read more
But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong read more
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
