He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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