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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. -
John Mason Brown
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. -
Richard Armour
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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. -
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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. -
Jean De La Bruyère
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. -
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. -
Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. -
Rebecca West
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. -
Mark Twain
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Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. -
Frank Moore Colby
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action, -
S I Hayakawa
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. -
George Herbert
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know. -
Cullen Hightower
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. -
Leigh Hunt
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. -
Johnson
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