Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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