Quote #13

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
  2. :one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
  3. 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
  4. But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
  5. And surely 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:
  6. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
  7. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
  8. Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

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