Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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