Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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