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.
JONATHAN SWIFTAle is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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 is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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