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After having trained yourself to listen spiritedly, not to interrupt irrelevantly or sulk at interruption, then your big aim must be to find something to say when no one else seems to want to carry on. Bacon wrote, "The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else." Conversation is a good thing, and therefore it does not always come naturally. Anne Parrish writes somewhere, "The conversation fainted again, and again Mr. Lacey leapt forward with restoratives." Dean Swift, the writer who devoted the keenest analysis to the problem of talking, said, |
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