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.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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