I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If 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.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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