Art of Conversation and Impromptu Speech: A Short Manual of Practice (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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After perusing my manuscript, my friend asked, with that reckless yielding to impulse, which is the privilege of social intimacy: "What are you going to do with it?"

"Why, publish it and sell it, of course. Then it will be introduced in all clubs and drawing rooms, and in all the schools in the country, public and private."

"You are very sanguine," rejoined my friend, coldly.

"Why, don't you believe in the pedagogic value of my system?"

"I have believed in it longer than you have. Twenty years ago, while reading Disraeli's 'Lothair,' I came across a passage in which one of the characters observed that the moderns were inferior to the ancients, intellectually and aesthetically, chiefly because they read much and conversed little, while with the latter the practice was reversed.

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