I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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