I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTAnd surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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