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.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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