Irish - Writer | November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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