Quote #12

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

More from Jonathan Swift

  1. 'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
  2. I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
  3. And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid:
  4. :one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
  5. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
  6. But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
  7. There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
  8. '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.

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