The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFTI’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Every dog must have his day.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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