Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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