How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

Quote by Jonathan Swift

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen...

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen...

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold...

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold...

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love...

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love...

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house...

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house...

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may...

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may...

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any...

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any...

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where...

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where...

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition...

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition...

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire...

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire...

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only...

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only...

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting...

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting...

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and...

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and...

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.