The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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For 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.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Every dog must have his day.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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