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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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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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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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