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Conversation

«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.»
Author: Dorothy Nevill | About: Conversation | Keywords: Right Thing, tempting
«Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | About: Conversation, Writing | Keywords: IS IS, managed, properly
«The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it»
«The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken»
«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.»