Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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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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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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