Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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