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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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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 wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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