Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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