USES OF CONVERSATION
Dr Marjorie Chaplyri, headmistress of the Edinburgh Ladies’ College, addressing the Edinburgh Soroptimists on “ Conversation" asked how many people there are with whose conversation we should wish to live. She quoted from “Adam Bede “ Some folks’ tongues are like the clocks as run on striking, not to tell you the time o’day. but because there’s summaf wrong wi’ their insides." From Thomas a Kempis she culled a quotation which might well apply to the rumour-mongers of to-day;—" If thou hadst not gone abroad and harkened to idle rumours, thou wouldst the better have preserved a happy peace of mind. But since thou delightcst sometimes to hear novelties, it is but fit thou suffer for it some disquietude of heart.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 10
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