It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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