It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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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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Every dog must have his day.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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