"Modest egotism is the salt of conversation;..." - Quote by Henry Van Dyke
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
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“A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.”
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
“No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.”
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“The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.”
“And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.”
“Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.”