May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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