All Jonathan Swift Quotes
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Jonathan Swift
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
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