Every dog must have his day.
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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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