One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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