A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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