James Loewen

“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I replied that England (the dear place of my nativity) was computed to produce three times the quantity of food, more than its inhabitants are able to consume, ... But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, from whence in return we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, forswearing, flattering, suborning, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, freethinking,”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
― Jonathan Swift

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
― Jonathon Swift