A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Every dog must have his day.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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