#chitchat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chitchat, aggregated by home.social.
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We are of each an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all of the eclat of a proverb.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 18 [Elizabeth] (1813)More about this quote: wist.info/austen-jane/64549/
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A quotation from Kerry Greenwood
“Conversation is a minefield until you learn the conventions, Jane dear.”
“I’ll never learn all the rules,” muttered Jane.
“Yes, you will,” said Phryne. “Then you can bend them.”Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher No. 13, The Castlemaine Murders, ch. 4 (2003)More about this quote: wist.info/greenwood-kerry/8331…
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