Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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