An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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 as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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