How to Talk and Debate

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Excerpt from How to Talk and Debate: Laws of Conversation, Listening, Self-Possession, Appreciativeness, Conversation, When Confidential, The Matter and the Manner, Proper Subjects, Trifles, Objectionable Subjects, Politics, Rights of Women, Wit and Humour, Questions and Negatives Common is comm-nu, because it supposes a free communication between persons in private life. A speech made in a public place is public property, and may be quoted and criticised elsewhere, but whatever is uttered in the sanctity of private life is confidential in principle, and must not be repeat ed. It is the besetting sin of semi-cultivated people to retail all they hear and see - to repeat the jokes, the hon mots, the repartees, and the critcisms they have heard in company, giv ing each as the saying of So - and-ao but nothing can be in worse taste. It is even a dangerous practice, and those who adopt it will be shunned as soon as their sins find them out. The authority just quoted says: The conversation of society is confidential in principle, because it is not to authorize you or any one to repeat a single word capable of causing pain, still less of proving injurious to others. But it does not in practice prevent any one from repeating good sayings, good anecdotes, anything that may be pleasing, instructive or amusing, provided it is untinged by slander, and free from the seeds of mischief. For my own part, I never hear anything said in praise of a pretty girl without embellishing and repeating it as fast as pos sible, and every individual is hereby permitted and enjoined to follow the good example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.