Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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