Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Every dog must have his day.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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That 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.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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