The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTPoor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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 bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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