"Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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“Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.”
“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.”
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“How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!”
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
“A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.”