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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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