Jonathan Swift Quotes on Etiquette
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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:
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.