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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we c

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. – Jonathan Swift

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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Envy is the art of counting the other fellows blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin

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