I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood 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.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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