If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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