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The two maxims of any great man at court are always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word.http://books.google.com/books?id=eRwwAAAAMAAJ&q="The+two+maxims+of+any+great+man+at+court+are+always+to+keep+his+countenance+and+never+to+keep+his+word"&pg=PA262#v=onepage

— Jonathan Swift

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The two maxims of any great man at court are always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word.http://books.google.com/books?id=eRwwAAAAMAAJ&q="The+two+maxims+of+any+great+man+at+court+are+always+to+keep+his+countenance+and+never+to+keep+his+word"&pg=PA262#v=onepage" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jonathan Swift

About Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. Acclaimed as one of the finest prose satirists in the English language, he was also well known for his poetry and essays.