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Tag Name "Conversation" (1709)

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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
Madame de Stael
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Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conversation is a game of circles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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conversation is now pretty well a lost art.
Dorothy Nevill
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Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.
Richard Steele
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Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
Stendhal
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Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.
Janet Frame
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
Agnes Repplier
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Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
Cees Nooteboom
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
Jonathan Swift
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Conversation is a catalyst for innovation
John Seely Brown
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
Padgett Powell
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.
Laura Riding
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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