Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every dog must have his day.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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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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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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