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Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, by Jonathan Swift

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Dec 1, 2021 • 19m

To harp on one's illnesses, giving all the symptoms and circumstances, has been a blemish on conversation for ages. Two hundred years ago Swift complained of persons who continually talked about themselves. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)

Jonathan Swift born Nov. 30, 1667.

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