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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
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Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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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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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
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Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right She may then grow wise for spite.
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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile esteem without love is languid and cold.
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A fig for your bill of fare show me your bill of company.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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