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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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 a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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