Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every 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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
JONATHAN SWIFT