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Re: ~ Jonathan Swift Quotes ~
« Reply #30 on: January 20, 2015, 01:26:55 PM »
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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« Reply #31 on: January 20, 2015, 01:27:42 PM »
When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2015, 01:28:18 PM »
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
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« Reply #33 on: January 20, 2015, 01:28:53 PM »
When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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« Reply #34 on: January 20, 2015, 01:29:47 PM »
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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« Reply #35 on: January 20, 2015, 01:30:58 PM »
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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« Reply #36 on: January 20, 2015, 01:31:33 PM »
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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« Reply #37 on: January 20, 2015, 01:32:10 PM »
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
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« Reply #38 on: January 20, 2015, 01:32:49 PM »
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.
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« Reply #39 on: January 20, 2015, 01:33:29 PM »
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.
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« Reply #40 on: January 20, 2015, 01:34:12 PM »
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
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« Reply #41 on: January 20, 2015, 01:34:45 PM »
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
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« Reply #42 on: January 20, 2015, 01:35:28 PM »
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
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« Reply #43 on: January 20, 2015, 01:35:59 PM »
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
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Re: ~ Jonathan Swift Quotes ~
« Reply #44 on: January 20, 2015, 01:36:31 PM »
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.
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