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“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.”

Ifs Littles Language Trouble Conversation Travel Accounts Trade Foreigners Traveller Owing Good Conversation Bad Language

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”

Use Conversation Travel Function Fruit Occasional

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.”

Mind Fun Conversation Travel Time Travel Traveled Traveler Funny Travel Great Travel Inspiring Travel Photography And Travel Roads Traveled Roads And Journeys Feet And Travel

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.”

Ifs Knows Conversation Travel Managers Helpful Jersey Exit New Jersey Supermarkets Road Sign

Author:Neal Shusterman

“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Would Be Fall Church Human Beings Talking Feet Solitude Quiet Conversation Travel Silent Regions Midst Sierra Pristine Primeval

Book:The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

Source: The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.”

Made Two Facts Minutes Conversation Travel England Prepared Friendly Restless Frenchmen

Book:Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback

Source: Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback

“San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.”

People World Funny Conversation Travel Companion Categories Imaginary San Francisco Sidewalk

Author:Dave Barry