Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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