Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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