When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTThis made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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