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Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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.
Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
'Tis 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.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Love Quote
Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Life Quote
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
Family Quote
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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