The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books
Chinese Proverbs
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It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra
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There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
James Nathan Miller
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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Dorothy Nevill
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
William Shakespeare
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Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in
writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: in the "Spectator", no. 476
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We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God
in company.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. LV, v. 14)
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With good and gentle-humored hearts
I choose to chat where'er I come
Whate'er the subject be that starts.
But if I get among the glum
I hold my tongue to tell the truth
And keep my breath to cool my broth.
John Byrom
Quotes , Source: Careless Content
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
John Byrom
Quotes , Source: Careless Content
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But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Conversation (l. 703)
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I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
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My tongue within my lips I rein;
For who talks much must talk in vain.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: Fables (pt. I, introduction, l. 53)
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With thee conversing I forget the way.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: Trivia (bk. II, l. 480)
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They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company,
with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste,
Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IX)
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner
does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him,
and benumbs all his faculties.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes
the hour very correctly.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Johnsoniana--Kearsley (l. 604)
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