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Jonathan Swift Quotes

«A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.»
«Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.»
«Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.»
«It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.»
«One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.»
«Argument is the worst sort of conversation.»
«Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.»
«What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: expressly
«Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: Crusts
«Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: abound in