Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFTSatire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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