Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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