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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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