Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Every dog must have his day.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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