Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Every dog must have his day.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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