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.
JONATHAN SWIFTPositiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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