I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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