May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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