And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of … - Jonathan Swift

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When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Jonathan Swift

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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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