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QUOTATION:Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
ATTRIBUTION:Emily Post (1873–1960), U.S. hostess. Etiquette, ch. 6 (1922).
 
 
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