"Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood."

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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

— Benjamin Franklin