Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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