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Conversation Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
- WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency…
- Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe…
- Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
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- It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. — Yogi Berra
- Love without conversation is impossible. — Mortimer Adler
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