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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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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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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
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I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
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Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.
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