Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTBooks, the children of the brain.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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