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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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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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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man

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