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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
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.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are
