The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Every dog must have his day.
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