Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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