The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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