A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.


Samuel Johnson (1878), repr. In John Morley (ed.) English Men of Letters (New York: Harper, 1894) vol. 6, p. 60

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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair...

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair...

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair...

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair...