We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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