Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. (Anna Brownell Jameson)

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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