Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFTI’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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