When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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