A Compromise is an arrangement whereby people who can't get what they want make sure nobody else does either.
Compromise is not the spice of life, but its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Conversation is best with lulls — Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.
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