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 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’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Every dog must have his day.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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