Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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