It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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