There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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