How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTPerverseness is your whole defence.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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