Silence is unnatural to man. He begins his life with a cry and __1__ it in stillness. In the __2__ he does all he can to make a noise and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than the __3__ of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to __4__ a dreadful silence. If he is introduced to someone, and a number of __5__ occur in the conversation he regards himself as a failure and is full of __6__ of the empties-headed chatterbox. He knows that 99% of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he __7__ to join in the buzz, and to __8__ that he is a man and not a wax-work figure.
The __9__ of a conversation is usually not to communicate ideas, but to __10__ up all the buzzing sound. __11__, most buzzing is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable to the __12__. A man would be very __13__ if he waited until he had a wise thought before taking part in the buzzing with others. Those who despise the weather as a conversational __14__ seem to me to be __15__ of the reason why human beings wish to talk. __16__, very few human beings join in a conversation in which they are __17__ allowed to go on making a noise into other peoples ears, though they have nothing to tell them __18__ that they have seen two or three new plays or __19__ they have had bad food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of the evening during which they have said nothing meaningful __20__ immense length they congratulate themselves on their success as talkers.
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