I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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