Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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