There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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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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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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