May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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