Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Every dog must have his day.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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