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.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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