A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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