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Noblemen engaged writers in talk ; merchants clutched at crumbs of news from politicians . Any conceivable topic might become the theme of a Socratic dialogue , whatever it might lack of Socratic calm and lucidity .
Noblemen engaged writers in talk ; merchants clutched at crumbs of news from politicians . Any conceivable topic might become the theme of a Socratic dialogue , whatever it might lack of Socratic calm and lucidity .
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On the other hand , quickness and brightness in talk were decidedly called for . Even a harebrained gadabout might have a true turn for phrase ; and though women in comedies of the period talked with very short ...
On the other hand , quickness and brightness in talk were decidedly called for . Even a harebrained gadabout might have a true turn for phrase ; and though women in comedies of the period talked with very short ...
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No other recorded conversation even approaches it ; no other Englishman so “ raised a life of talk to the level of a life of action . ” For his talk , as for almost everything else , Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for ...
No other recorded conversation even approaches it ; no other Englishman so “ raised a life of talk to the level of a life of action . ” For his talk , as for almost everything else , Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for ...
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