Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFTA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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