Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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