The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Defines skillful conversation as the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
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If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and…
— Unknown
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. –Christopher Morley, 1890-1957,…
— Christopher Morley
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— William Shakespeare
Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.
— Lord Bacon
"Moses and his people were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 or 3 …
— Unknown
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they bu…
— Southey
