Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Every dog must have his day.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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