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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we…

Quote byJonathan Swift · 1667–1745

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754, published posthumously).

English (original)

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.

— Jonathan Swift

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