Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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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 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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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