Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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