I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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