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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees
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