Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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