Poet Jonathan Swift

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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
May you live all the days of your life.
I row after health like a waterman...
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
May you live every day of your life.
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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