One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTA wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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