A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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