There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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