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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 (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
When we desire or solicit any thing, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nature, which gave us two eyes to see, and two ears to hear, has given us but one tongue to speak (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Rebukes are easy from our betters, from men of quality and letters; but when low dunces will affront, what man alive can stand the brunt? (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply can’t words is the most ruinous corruption in any language (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
They never would hear, but turn the deaf ear, as a matter they had no concern in (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
That was excellently observed, say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Indeed, madam, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea: I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Lose no time to contradict her, nor endeavor to convict her; only take this rule along, always to advise her wrong, and reprove her when she’s right; she may then grow wise for spite (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man’s understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law? (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I’m up and down and round about, yet all the world can’t find me out; though hundreds have employed their leisure, they never yet could find my measure (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid. Let the sage reflections of these philosophic minds be cherished (Jonathan Swift Quotes)