Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When 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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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