One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTI love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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