One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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