Irish - Writer | November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift
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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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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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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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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 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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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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