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Jonathan Swift: Quotes
- Age and Aging
Every man desires tolive long; but no man would be old.: Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Fortune and Chance
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.: Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Genius and Talent
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Humor and Wit
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.: The Battle of the Books
- Praise and Flattery
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit. - Religion
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.: Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Shame
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.: Thoughts on Various Subjects
- Style
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
- Vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.: Thoughts on Various Subjects