I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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