This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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