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Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
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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
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan Swift -
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift -
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
Jonathan Swift -
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
Jonathan Swift -
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Jonathan Swift -
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift -
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Jonathan Swift