Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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