Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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