Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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