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Andr?? Gide
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http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=220
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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.
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La Rochefoucauld
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Anon.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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Richard Willard Armour
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It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
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Anonymous
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To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness..
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Jonathan Swift
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Chinese Proverb
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
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Kin Hubbard
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Kim Hubbard
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Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Winston Churchill
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Leigh Hunt
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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Rene Descartes
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
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Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
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Dennis Miller
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A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Adam Smith
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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?Immanuel Kant
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If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our idea
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Donal Henahan
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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
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HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 34.
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In conversation boldness now bears sway, But know, that nothing can so foolish be As empty boldness.
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Joseph Addison
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire v., Line 57.
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A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 't is a task indeed to learn--to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows or makes you both polite and wise.
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Real Live Preacher
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There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
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Victor Hugo
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So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Mort Crim
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Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
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Janina Atkins
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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
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William Lyon Phelps
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world.
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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.
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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
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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Conversation is food for the soul.
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Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
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Eating without conversation is only stoking.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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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.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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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.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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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.
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
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He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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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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To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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"This is a 'black card situation, end of conversation'." -- Lister
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"Time to take a ride, it leaves today no conversation..."
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"You just want to throw a simian wrench into the conversation."-K't'lk
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"Conversation breaks up the monopoly of not talkin'." - Popeye
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There isn???t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren???t really living without it.
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"I consider the entire conversation something best forgotten." Garak
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"I was just trying to make conversation, Spock." McCoy
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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control
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"Will someone please explain this conversation to me?" -- Bashir
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"Boring conversation anyway." -- Han Solo
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After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.
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A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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"I'm not having this conversation......" - Sinclair
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"Let's begin this whole conversation again."
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"This conversation didn't exist."
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