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 SWIFTVision is seeing the invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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