The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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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 is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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