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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. ↗

— David Swift

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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. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Jonathan Swift

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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