It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTAy, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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