There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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