Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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