All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.Jonathan Swift
Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
Jonathan Swift
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
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