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sports of the body;
and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. All sluggish and pacific pleasures areto the same degreesolitary and selfish; and every durable band between human beings is founded in or heightened by some element of competition. Nowthe relation that has the least root in matter is undoubtedly that airy one of friendship; and henceI suppose it is that good talk most commonly arises among friends. Talk is indeedboth the scene and instrument of friendship. It is in talk alone that the friends can measure strengthand enjoy that amicable counter- assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of life. A good talk is not to be had for the asking. Humours must first be accorded in a kind of overture or prologue; hourcompany and circumstance be suited; and thenat a fit juncturethe subjectthe quarry of two heated mindsspring up like a deer out of the wood. Not that the talker has any of the hunter's pridethough he has all and more than all his ardour. The genuine artist follows the stream of conversation as an angler follows the windings of a brooknot dallying where he fails to kill. He trusts implicitly to hazard; and he i "converse slippers"yilai:nike heels for women ugg kids bailey Ernest Thompson Setoneje |
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