Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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