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Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come Whate'er the subject be that starts. But if I get among the glum I hold my tongue to tell the truth And keep my breath to cool my broth.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

With thee conversing I forget the way.

They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike.

Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.