An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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