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Letter "C" » 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.»
«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»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Conversation,
Spirit
| Keywords:
observation, overturn, overturned, overturning
«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»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
hearkening, hearkens, succeeding
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
conversation, different, difficulty, explained, late, mostly, of late, ones, trees
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