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Mar 9: TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS

Common Sense and Good Manners

Swift regretted the laws against dueling because dueling at least
was a good means of ridding the country of bores and fools.
His keen eye penetrated social customs and saw the common
sense that governed good manners.

Read: TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS .............  Vol. 27, pp. 99-103