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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.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Human Rights Activist
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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