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Jonathan Swift Quotes about Manners

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625