One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; ...

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; ...

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; ...

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; ...