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Letter "J" » Jonathan Swift Quotes
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«Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.»
«We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.»
«Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart»
«I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand»
«When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings»
«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.»
«A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.»
«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»
«Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.»
«If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time»
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