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.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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.
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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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