“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”
Jonathan Swift book A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”
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Context: What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.
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