"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation."
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"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
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"Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being."
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"The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this."
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"But stories somehow lengthen when begun."
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"All men, well interrogated, answer well."
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"Debate is the death of conversation."
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"If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong."
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"Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect."
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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."
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"Conversation is a game of circles."
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"Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words."
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"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression."
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"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."
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"Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes"
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"In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent."
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"A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast."
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"How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off."
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"It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady."
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"The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being."
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