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Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
Observation is an old man s memory.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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