Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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