I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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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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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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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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