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.
JONATHAN SWIFTI love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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