I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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