Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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This 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.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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