When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTPerverseness is your whole defence.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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