Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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