I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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