Studies in conduct . elf than he isat all justified in doing. For six epigrams in anevening do not make a good talker. And men, orrather lads, of this stamp —for men find the com-parative worthlessness of the knack—are apt toforget the difference between a keen epigram, avigorous antithesis, or a hissing paradox, on theone hand, and mere pertness and flippancy on theother. It would take a very long time to classifyall the varieties of good talk, elevated or merelycolloquial. Dr. Johnson was a good talker in oneway, and Coleridge in another. Their styles arewide as the poles asunder. But each h
Studies in conduct . elf than he isat all justified in doing. For six epigrams in anevening do not make a good talker. And men, orrather lads, of this stamp —for men find the com-parative worthlessness of the knack—are apt toforget the difference between a keen epigram, avigorous antithesis, or a hissing paradox, on theone hand, and mere pertness and flippancy on theother. It would take a very long time to classifyall the varieties of good talk, elevated or merelycolloquial. Dr. Johnson was a good talker in oneway, and Coleridge in another. Their styles arewide as the poles asunder. But each has charac-teristic merit in his style, and between them lie allsorts of shades and degrees. A man ought to bequite catholic in his views about good this does not prevent him from seeing that insociety there is a great deal of dull, stupid, or pertmimicry of talk. Against display of vanity in thisshape everybody should earnestly set his face. Itis one of the most annoying of the minor XXY. NEW FRIENDS.
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