        item: #1 of 13
          id: 17476
      author: Kleiser, Grenville
       title: Talks on Talking
        date: None
       words: 27121
      flesch: 67
     summary: Good conversation requires, among other things, mental alertness, accuracy of statement, adequate vocabulary, facility of expression, and an agreeable voice, and these qualities are most essential for effective public speaking. Judgment and tact are necessary to good conversation.
    keywords: conversation; expression; good; life; man; manner; men; mind; people; power; public; quality; salesman; self; speaker; speaking; speech; story; style; subject; talker; talking; thought; throat; time; use; voice; way; words
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 18207
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: Coffee and Repartee
        date: None
       words: 18162
      flesch: 80
     summary: I missed you at the concert last night, Mr. Idiot, said he. Mr. Whitechoker tried to look severe; the gentleman who occasionally imbibed smiled all over; the Bibliomaniac ignored the remark entirely, not having as yet forgiven the Idiot for his gross insinuation regarding his friend's _édition de luxe_ of _Through Africa by Daylight_; Mary, the maid, who greatly admired the Idiot, not so much for his idiocy as for the aristocratic manner in which he carried himself, and the truly striking striped shirts he wore, left the room in a convulsion of laughter that so alarmed the cook below-stairs that the next platterful of cakes were more like tin plates than cakes; and as for Mrs. Smithers, that worthy woman was speechless with wrath.
    keywords: bibliomaniac; book; coffee; course; day; doctor; friend; gentleman; idiot; illustration; landlady; life; master; morning; mrs; pedagog; school; smithers; table; thing; time; whitechoker
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 18881
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: The Idiot
        date: None
       words: 22979
      flesch: 79
     summary: Suppose, Mr. Idiot, a man should come to you and say: 'Idiot, we have a fund of $800,000 in our hands, actual cash. With which sally the Idiot kissed his hand to Mr. Pedagog and retired from the scene. II Let's write a book, suggested the Idiot, as he took his place at the board and unfolded his napkin.
    keywords: bibliomaniac; boat; canal; day; doctor; good; house; idiot; illustration; man; master; mind; morning; mrs; pedagog; poet; school; table; thought; time; whitechoker; world
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 27830
      author: Conklin, Mary Greer
       title: Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
        date: None
       words: 23112
      flesch: 60
     summary: WHAT CONVERSATION IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT PAGE What is the aim of conversation?--The talk of Coleridge and Macaulay--Browning's delightful conversation--Why we go into society--The elements of good conversation--What it is not--Genius and scholarship not essential to good conversation 21 Chapter II DISCUSSION _VERSUS_ CONTROVERSY Dr. Johnson's and Robert Louis Stevenson's opinion of discussion--Politeness and discussion--The hostess in discussion--Flat contradiction in discussion--Polemical squabbles--Brilliant discussion in France--The secret of delightful conversation in France--Leading the talk--Topics for discussion--Gladstone's conversation 35 Chapter III GOSSIP Gossip in literature--Gossip comes from being of one kindred under God--Gossip and the misanthrope--Personal history of people we know and people we don't know--Gossip of books of biography--Interest in others gives fellowship and warmth to life--Essential difference between slander and innocent gossip--The psychology of the slanderer--The apocryphal slanderer--Talking behind another's back--Personal chat the current coin of conversation 63 Chapter IV Why cultivating the social instinct adds strength to business persuasion--Secret of the ability to use tactful and vivid words in business--Essential training necessary to the nice use of words--Business success depends upon nicety and tact more than on any quality of force 161 Chapter VIII CONCLUSION Conversation is reciprocal--Good conversationalists cannot talk to the best advantage without confederates--As in whist it is the combination which effects what a single whist-playing genius cannot accomplish--Good conversation does not mark a distinction among subjects; It denotes a difference in talkability--The different degrees of talkability--Imperturbable glibness impedes good conversation--Ease with which one may improve one's conversational powers 175 CHAPTER I _INTRODUCTORY_ WHAT CONVERSATION IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT _
    keywords: art; chapter; conversation; dinner; discussion; gossip; guests; hostess; interest; interruption; life; man; men; people; person; society; subject; table; talk; talking; thought; tête; way; words; world
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 28303
      author: Fitch, Clyde
       title: The Smart Set: Correspondence & Conversations
        date: None
       words: 26648
      flesch: 91
     summary: You happy, _happy_ woman you! Well, I'm going down to tell the others my _good_ news (you understand that _good_, don't you?), and we'll drink to the health and happiness of you both in some crimson Chianti.
    keywords: ball; children; course; day; dear; elsie; good; house; letter; life; love; mother; mrs; new; opera; people; society; sort; teddy; thing; time; way; woman; york
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 31143
      author: Bate, John
       title: Talkers: With Illustrations
        date: None
       words: 84478
      flesch: 75
     summary: He grumbles against trade, commerce, money; against good men and bad men; against good women and bad women; against babes and children, young ladies and old maids. In company, says Charron, it is a very great fault to be more forward in setting one's-self off and talking to show one's parts than to learn the worth and to be truly acquainted with the abilities of other men.
    keywords: business; character; church; company; conversation; day; evil; fact; father; fault; friend; gentleman; god; good; great; grumbling; hand; heart; home; hope; house; kind; know; lie; life; little; long; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; neighbour; new; people; person; place; question; right; room; self; sir; society; speaking; spirit; subject; talker; talking; things; thought; thy; time; tongue; truth; way; wife; wonder; words; world; young
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 33623
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: The Inventions of the Idiot
        date: None
       words: 27726
      flesch: 80
     summary: For plausibility, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Pedagog, you are to me a perfect wonder. XII Dreamaline Well, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Pedagog, as the guests gathered about the table, how goes the noble art of invention with you?
    keywords: bibliomaniac; day; doctor; dreamaline; good; house; idea; idiot; know; man; master; men; mind; pedagog; people; poet; school; society; things; thought; time; waffles; whitechoker; work; world
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 34863
      author: None
       title: Conversation: Its Faults and Its Graces
        date: None
       words: 29898
      flesch: 77
     summary: The _ile_ in all words must be sounded _ill_, with the exception of _exile_, _senile_, _gentile_, _reconcile_, and _camomile_, in which _ They contributed to his _maintenance_; pronounce _maintenance_ with the accent on _main_, and _never_ say, _maintainance_.
    keywords: accent; case; conversation; day; error; good; grammar; kind; lay; leave; life; little; man; means; mind; nominative; objective; people; persons; place; present; pronounce; sentence; sound; speech; subject; thing; time; use; verb; words
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 35017
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: Half-Hours with the Idiot
        date: None
       words: 23123
      flesch: 68
     summary: Well, I suppose there is a difference between a prune and a Canadian melon, old man, but after all, they're both fruit, and when it comes to being squeezed, I guess it hurts a lemon just as much as it does a lime. The last time I saw him he was starting off with old man Weston on his walk to Chicago.
    keywords: american; bibliomaniac; brief; business; day; days; doctor; dollars; idiot; kind; lawyer; life; like; man; matter; mind; moment; morning; mrs; new; old; pedagog; poor; right; room; society; sort; state; table; tax; thing; time; way; women; world; years
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 35302
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
        date: None
       words: 36695
      flesch: 80
     summary: Well, I don't know about that, Mr. Idiot, said Mr. Whitechoker, tapping his fingers together reflectively. VIII SPRING AND ITS POETRY Well, Mr. Idiot, said Mrs. Pedagog, genially, as the Idiot entered the breakfast-room, what can I do for you this fine spring morning?
    keywords: 16mo; april; bibliomaniac; brief; business; christmas; course; day; days; doctor; dollars; dubbins; fact; good; hand; horse; husband; ideal; idiot; kind; lawyer; life; lot; man; matter; money; mrs; new; pedagog; people; place; poet; right; sort; thing; time; union; way; whitechoker; world; worth; years
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 39598
      author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
       title: Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads
        date: None
       words: 32106
      flesch: 80
     summary: You don't see many old men like that. There were chairs out under the great oak-trees in the yard, and the two sat talking all afternoon of old times, until the evening shadows began to grow long across the grass.
    keywords: bowser; boy; bud; child; christmas; cloth; country; cross; day; days; door; eyes; face; good; hand; head; heart; hines; home; life; man; men; miller; miss; morning; mrs; new; old; people; perkins; place; polly; red; roads; saw; school; set; store; things; thought; time; way; years
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 39682
      author: Bangs, John Kendrick
       title: The Idiot at Home
        date: None
       words: 39461
      flesch: 82
     summary: Why should he be anxious about the children? asked Mrs. Idiot, placidly, as she sweetened her husband's coffee. Mrs. Idiot laughed.
    keywords: boy; brief; children; claus; clothes; cook; course; day; dear; dinner; dollars; find; good; home; house; idiot; illustration; life; man; mind; mollie; mrs; new; night; pedagog; people; place; poet; santa; talk; things; time; tommy; work; year
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 43025
      author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
       title: Rainy Week
        date: None
       words: 42089
      flesch: 86
     summary: Here it is almost February, he brooded, and even with what we've got, we're still short the Celibate and the Singing Voice and the May Girl. Before I had been in the Carolinas three days the telegram came. Have found May Girl.
    keywords: allan; allan john; ann; ann woltor; bit; brenswick; bride; course; day; eyes; face; george; george keets; girl; hand; husband; john; keets; kennilworth; man; miss; moment; morning; new; night; paul; rollins; room; saw; think; thought; time; voice; way; week; woltor; world
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