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Great Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
- Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by…
- My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live…
- For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little…
- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed…
- Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
- It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe…
- Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble…
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
- Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one…
- Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
- Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
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