There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Good 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.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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