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“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
— Jonathan Swift
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
— Jonathan Swift
“He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.”
— Jonathan Swift
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
— Jonathan Swift
“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”
— Jonathan Swift
“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.”
— Jonathan Swift
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
— Jonathan Swift
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
— Jonathan Swift
“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.”
— Jonathan Swift
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Every dog must have his day.”
— Jonathan Swift
“If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
— Jonathan Swift
“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
— Jonathan Swift
“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.”
— Jonathan Swift
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Observation is an old man's memory.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
— Jonathan Swift
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