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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More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Every dog must have his day.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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