Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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May you live all the days of your life. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#days #live #may #you #your

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#invisible #others #seeing #vision

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deceive #desire #does #false #indirect

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#enough #hate #love #make #religion

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #man #never #own #saying

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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