Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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 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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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