May you live all the days of your life.
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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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