It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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