Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTSmall causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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 soup a French taste.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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