The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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