Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competit…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). The Conduct of Life, p.144, Harvard University Press
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