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.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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