![Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.](/assets/img/quote-photos/conversation-is-a-traffick-and-if-you-enter-into-it-without-some-stock-of-knowl.jpg)
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