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Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Citations by Jonathan Swift
A people long used to hardships lose by degrees the very notions of liberty: they look upon themselves as at mercy.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
As a man is known by his company, so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together; because it gives his answerer double work.
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Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered; or at least without being punished.
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Grandfathers in private families are not much observed to have great influence on their grandsons, and I believe they have much less among princes.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
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