Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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