The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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