A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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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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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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