Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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