One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTReason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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 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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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