A Commonplace Book

Category: conversation...

  • a conversation with no negative tone
  • honest conversations with your parents and/or your kids
  • a good conversationalist letting the other person do most of the talking
  • visiting hospitals with smiles and friendly conversation for patients
  • planning days with no conversation, only contemplation
  • Conversation is a game of circles. (RW Emerson)
  • Conversation should touch everything, but concentrate itself on nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
  • Great conversation...requires an absolute running of two souls into one. (RW Emerson)
  • Polite conversation is rarely either. (F. Lebowitz)
  • In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. (RW Emerson)
  • The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression. (S. Johnson)

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