War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Every dog must have his day.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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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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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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