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And when you stick on conversation's burs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
And when you stick on conversation's burs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
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.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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.]
It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
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.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
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.
