He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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