Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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