Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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