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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."
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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
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"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."
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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."
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"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic."
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"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
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"I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview."
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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation

"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life

"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man

"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
Wit

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship

"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship

"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character

"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
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