Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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 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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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And 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.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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