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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.Jonathan Swift
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
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