Jonathan Swift



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"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

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"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."

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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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Other quotes about: change
"Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter."

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"How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning"

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"I row after health like a waterman..."

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"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."

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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

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"May you live all the days of your life."

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"May you live every day of your life."

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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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"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

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"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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"Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly."

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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another."

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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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