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Conversation Quotes by Joseph Addison
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few…
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation…
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
- Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
- In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing…
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