The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Quote by Jonathan Swift
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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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Jonathan Swift Quotes
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- May you live every day of your life.
- Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
- Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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