Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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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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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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