Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Every dog must have his day.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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