Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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