The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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