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 SWIFT
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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