Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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