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The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

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

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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others

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Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

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You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

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