If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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May you live all the days of your life.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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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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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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