War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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