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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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