When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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