Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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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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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Every dog must have his day.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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