Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTI love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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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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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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