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• Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• CONVERSATION: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
• The best teacher is one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
  -- Edward Bulwe...
• PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
  -- Anatole France...
• EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order.
  The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other -- which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in the pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog....