The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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