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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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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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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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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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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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