May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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