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.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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