Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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