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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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Little-minded people’s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.
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Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and don’t even require a subject.
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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.
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Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
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Modest egotism is the salt of conversation.
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My 40-minute conversation with him.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t only bombs and bullets – no, they’re little gifts, containing meanings!
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things; to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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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.
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Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
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One could take down a book from a shelf ten tines more wise and witty than almost any man’s conversation. Bacon is wiser, Swift more humorous, than any person one is likely to meet with; but they cannot chime in with the exact frame of thought in which we happen to take them down from our shelves. Therein lies the luxury of conversation: and when a living speaker does not yield us that luxury, he becomes only a book on two legs.
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One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid. Let the sage reflections of these philosophic minds be cherished.
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One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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