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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."

"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."

"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."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
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"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."

"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."

"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."

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