The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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