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.
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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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 love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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