There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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