The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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