When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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