It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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