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Jonathan Swift Quotes

«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»
«What some invent the rest enlarge»
«In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: distresses
«Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction»
«Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: quarter, shorter
«Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Ambition | Keywords: creeping, offices
«The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.»
«Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.»
«When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.»
«There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.»