Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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