conversation​

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

--Mark Twain​

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

--Jane Austen

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We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

--Alicia Garza

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

--William Lyon Phelps

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

--Edward Gibbon

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Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

--Karen Salmansohn

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

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow