Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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