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Jonathan Swift: One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the…

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.

In today’s wordsOne of the best rules of conversation is never to say anything that anyone present could reasonably wish you hadn't said.

Jonathan SwiftCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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