{"date":"November 30","id":"11-30","intro":["To harp on one’s illnesses, giving all the symptoms and circumstances, has been a blemish on conversation for ages. Two hundred years ago Swift complained of persons who continually talked about themselves."],"minutes":16,"readings":[{"author":"Jonathan Swift","end":98,"start":91,"volume":27,"work":"Essay on Conversation"}],"slug":"november-30","status":"proofread","title":"“Don’ts” for Conversation","url":"/harvard-classics/november-30/","words":3249}