This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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