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.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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