We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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