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Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge-supreme while serious topics were disputing, or, with an epigram-surprise, of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.
Ch. 1, st. 5 (Eugene Onegin (1823))
Tags: conversation, disputing, epigramsurprise, eyes, felicitously, judgesupreme, kindling, ladies'
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