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"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts." »Rene Descartes
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." »Richard Willard Armour
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit." »La Rochefoucauld
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"conversation is food for the soul." »Mexican Proverb
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Your ignorance, cramps my conversation." »Sir Anthony Hawkins
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"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Eating without conversation is only stoking." »Marcelene Cox
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"conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Silence is one great art of conversation." »Anonymous
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation" »Author Unknown
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"Argument is the worst sort of conversation." »Jonathan Swift
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"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb
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"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller
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"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.." »Anonymous
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"Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"conversation is the enemy of good wine and food." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation." »Elizabeth Drew
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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 practising every day while they live." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves." »Michael Wilding
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"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." »Plato
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"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation." »Judith Martin
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"The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably." »Atwell
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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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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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