There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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 best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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