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They converse as those who know that God hears.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.