Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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