Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFTSatire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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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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