If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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