It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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