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Every Man Desires To Live Long; But No Man Would Be Old.
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Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1706)
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money
herefore, money is better than counsel. -- Jonathan Swif...
On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
-- Jonathan Swif...
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc.
beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last....