Jonathan Swift Quotes on Human nature
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
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We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.
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'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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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.