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Argument , indeed , is no part of conversation . It may arise among friends , and may not disturb their understanding ; but really good talk involves a thousand tacts and courtesies which are destroyed as soon as one of the company ...
Argument , indeed , is no part of conversation . It may arise among friends , and may not disturb their understanding ; but really good talk involves a thousand tacts and courtesies which are destroyed as soon as one of the company ...
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that work is poetic , or metaphysical , and sometimes therefore irritating to readers who demand the concrete , it has for many of us the magic of real conversation . The dialogue form has been often used , as Plato used it , for the ...
that work is poetic , or metaphysical , and sometimes therefore irritating to readers who demand the concrete , it has for many of us the magic of real conversation . The dialogue form has been often used , as Plato used it , for the ...
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Lamb said , whether ruefully or with enjoyment I do not completely recollect , that Hazlitt could and did repeat in one company the exact words of a conversation he had just heard in another . His memory , in fact , was as good as ...
Lamb said , whether ruefully or with enjoyment I do not completely recollect , that Hazlitt could and did repeat in one company the exact words of a conversation he had just heard in another . His memory , in fact , was as good as ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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