Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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