"The best of life is conversation, and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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“Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”
“Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.”
“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”
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“At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”
“New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.”
“The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.”