He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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