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And surely 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.

Jonathan Swift
Wish, Conversation, Unsaid
Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.294
And surely 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.