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.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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 doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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 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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Books, the children of the brain.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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