Jonathan Swift Quotes About Manners
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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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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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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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The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
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