Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
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Don't set your wit against a child.Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
Jonathan Swift
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid
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