He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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