Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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Although 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.
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