"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…"
— Conversation

January 1, 1970

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Jonathan Swift, "Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (c1713), in The Works of Jonathan Swift (London: J. Johnson, 1801), Vol. V, p. 233.