Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
There is no point where in I have so much laboured as that of improving and polishing all parts of conversation between persons of quality.
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You are as giddy and volatile as ever; just the reverse of Mr. Pope, who hath always loved a domestic life.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
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The malignant deity criticism dwelt on the top of a snowy mountain in nova zembla: momus found her extended in her den upon the spoils of numberless volumes half devoured. At her right hand sat ignorance, her father and husband, blind with age; at her left, pride, her mother, dressing her up in the scraps of paper herself had torn. There was opinion, her sister, light of foot, hoodwinked and headstrong, yet giddy and perpetually turning. About her played her children, noise and impudence, dulness and vanity, positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners.
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It is allowed on all hands that the people of England are more corrupt in their morals than any other nation this day under the sun.
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Whoever argues in defence of absolute power in a single person, though he offers the old plausible plea that it is his opinion, which he cannot help unless he be convinced, ought to be treated as the common enemy of mankind.
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In countries of freedom, princes are bound to protect their subjects in liberty, property, and religion, to receive their petitions and redress their grievances.
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No word more frequently in the mouths of men than conscience; and the meaning of it is, in some measure, understood: however, it is a word extremely abused by many who apply other meanings to it which God Almighty never intended.
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The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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