Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Every dog must have his day.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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