Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTPerverseness is your whole defence.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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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 stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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