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 SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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