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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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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. – Harry S. Truman

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they dont have for something they dont need. – Will Rogers

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