"Social intercourse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading matter from books and read ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter
... to trace here what troubles may be in store for the white races in the far future. The situation in the present and near future appears unsatisfactory enough. The untutored mind of the Ethiopian does not appreciate the finer ethics of social intercourse and the equality of mankind. Freedom to his reasoning means independence; to possess independence, to the semi-savage, is a proof of power. The inherent vanity of the aboriginal then finds scope, and the nation which cringed and quailed under ...
— On the Heels of De Wet • The Intelligence Officer
... the humorist of our party. He was an Eastern man, unfamiliar with the decent observances of social intercourse. A gesture of disapproval from our leader silenced him and the ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce
... said Mr. Stoendyck raspingly, in admirable English. "There are opportunities in this country for the pursuance of science, art, and social intercourse which one would hardly have expected. I do not take tea, I ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson
... know why Strickland had suddenly offered to show them to me. I welcomed the opportunity. A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him. ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
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