Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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 the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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