Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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