That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
JONATHAN SWIFTThis made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every dog must have his day.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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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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