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 SWIFTEvery man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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