We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Small 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.
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