"The pest of society is egotists."
Emerson.
"Avoid the personal view, the small view, the critical and fault-finding view. Run away from gossip as from a pestilence, and keep in your soul great ideals and ideals to solace your solitude. They will drive out petty worries, conceits and thoughts of carking care."
Ada C. Sweet.
JULY 12
"The etiquette of conversation consists as much in listening politely as in talking agreeably."
H. A.
"The reason why so few persons are agreeable in conversation is that every one thinks more about what he shall say than about what others are saying, and because one cannot well be a good listener when one is eager to speak."
La Rochefoucauld.