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Wells Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
- The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
- Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
- 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…
- What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I…
- If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the…
- It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
- Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year…
- Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
- If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it…
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