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I have ever hated all nations...

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

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You should never be ashamed t...

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

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It is useless to attempt to r...

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

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Vision is the Art of seeing T...

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

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The best Maxim I know in this...

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.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Argument, as usually managed,...

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

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Small causes are sufficient t...

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

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An idle reason lessens the we...

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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This made me reflect, how vai...

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

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Many a truth is told in jest....

Many a truth is told in jest.

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I have known some men possess...

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

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Vision is seeing the invisibl...

Vision is seeing the invisible.

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I said there was a society of...

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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Good manners is the art of ma...

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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Under this window in stormy w...

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

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Every man desires to live lon...

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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Satire is a sort of glass, wh...

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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There is nothing constant in ...

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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Human brutes, like other beas...

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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It is a maxim among these law...

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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