Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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