We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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