There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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