Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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 never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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