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With thee conversing I forget all time. (Joseph Chief)
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. (Joseph Chief)
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. (Joseph Chief)
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Joseph Chief)
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. (Joseph Chief)
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. (Joseph Chief)
Can we talk? (Joseph Chief)
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. (Joseph Chief)
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Joseph Chief)
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. (Joseph Chief)
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. (Joseph Chief)
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. (Joseph Chief)
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. (Joseph Chief)
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. (Joseph Chief)
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. (Joseph Chief)
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. (Joseph Chief)
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. (Joseph Chief)
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say Gentlemen to the person with whom he is conversing. (Joseph Chief)
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. (Joseph Chief)
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. (Joseph Chief)
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. (Joseph Chief)
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