It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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May you live all the days of your life.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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