The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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