I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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