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.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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