I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTMay you live all the days of your life.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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