Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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