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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Jonathan Swift
Coffee, Life Is, Drink
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1766). “Letters Written By The Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; And Several Of His Friends: From The Year 1703 To 1740”, p.297

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Jonathan Swift
Coffee, Philosophical, Espresso
Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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

Jonathan Swift
Mistake, Coffee, Echoes
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “-5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne”, p.365

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Jonathan Swift
Coffee, Drink, Quails
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Jonathan Swift
Coffee, Believe, Writing
Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.57

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