Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.Jonathan Swift
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue of teaching ministers to consult the public good of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Jonathan Swift
In church your grandsire cut his throat to do the job too long he tarried he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
Jonathan Swift
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues
Jonathan Swift
Satire, by being leveled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Jonathan Swift
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