I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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