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 SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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