Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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