One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTHow is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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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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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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