I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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It 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.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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