An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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