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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

By Jonathan Swift

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

By 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.

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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I row after health like a waterman...

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

By Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them

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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

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Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

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And he gave it for his opinion, that 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

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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

By Jonathan Swift

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

By Jonathan Swift