There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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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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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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