One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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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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This 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.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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