It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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