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" Don't set your wit against a child. "
Jonathan Swift
Set
Against
Child
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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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Off
Like
Feet
" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "
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Money
Head
" Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. "
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Age
Youth
" As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. "
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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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Rich
Proud
" Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. "
Jonathan Swift
Hate
Forth
Thomas
" If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. "
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Valuable
Heaven
Riches
" There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. "
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Will
Themselves
" A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. "
Jonathan Swift
Man
Been
Own
" The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. "
Jonathan Swift
Cannot
Ought
Overcome
" 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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Echo
Voice
Mistake
" I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. "
Jonathan Swift
Kissing
I Wonder
Fool
" Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. "
Jonathan Swift
Most
Men
Fighting
" Books, the children of the brain. "
Jonathan Swift
Children
Brain
Books
" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "
Jonathan Swift
Wise Man
Man
Younger
" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "
Jonathan Swift
Experience
Information
Life
" 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
Rest
You
Bad
" Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. "
Jonathan Swift
Poison
Like
Life
" The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. "
Jonathan Swift
World
Doctor
Diet
" Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. "
Jonathan Swift
Ambition
Short
May
" 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. "
Jonathan Swift
Decisions
Done
Justice
" Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. "
Jonathan Swift
Discover
Glass
Sort
" One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. "
Jonathan Swift
Friends
More
Than
" Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. "
Jonathan Swift
Live
You
World
" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "
Jonathan Swift
Understood
Politics
Nothing
" We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. "
Jonathan Swift
Religion
Hate
Love
" Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. "
Jonathan Swift
Strength
Weakness
Know
" Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. "
Jonathan Swift
Laughed
Men
Humor
" Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. "
Jonathan Swift
Nothing
Words
Wind