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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Hyperion (ch. VII), quoted from the Chinese
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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.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: Essay--On the Athenian Orators
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“With thee conversing I forget all time:
All seasons and their change, all please alike.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 639), Eve speaking to Adam
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“Form'd by thy converse, happily steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 379)
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“They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]”
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian Quotes Source: Apologeticus (p. 36), (Ed. Rigalt)
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“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”
Izaak Walton Quotes Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. XVIII)
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“A dearth of words a woman need not fear;
But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:
In that the skill of conversation lies;
That shows and makes you both polite and wise.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 57)
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“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
Robert Benchley Quotes |
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“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
Andre Maurois Quotes |
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“A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.”
Pope John Paul II Quotes |
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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.”
George Sala Quotes |
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“Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”
John Locke Quotes |
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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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