is a speech and not a soliloquy.” The person who is only talking to himself needn’t be amusing. Perhaps that’s why so few of us are amusing. The person who does not care if he is heard, is the person who does not care to dialogue. The person who does not care if he dialogues, corrodes the bonds of conversation with caustic remarks. Chesterton said “It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer. That is why, in recent literature, there has been so little argument and so
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