There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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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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