Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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